Islamic Unit Study Review

When I initially put this unit together I sourced as many secular resources as possible. As we worked through those books, I found that many of them were not accurate and in some cases contained subtle yet damaging information. I began to source material written by Muslims for a Muslim audience and while they are not without errors, they are far superior than the material for the general public. The exception are the biographies which I found to be engaging, accurate and well written. There were some biographies in the Age of Bliss series that my daughter and I didn't like. That series is available at Siraj Bookstore and there are several authors for that series. The AdabKids series (also from Siraj Bookstore) was excellent! They aren't the type of book I typically go for, but I found them engaging and informative, and my daughter loved them. Siraj bookstore sent me a number of selections for free, in addition to the books we purchased using our educational funding. Because we are technically secular homeschoolers and use our funding for secular resources, we did not buy any of the material deemed religious. We can include that in our lessons, but not the in lesson work we turn in to our school. All biographies and histories are secular, but the stories of the previous prophets and the seerah (biography of the Prophet (saw)) may not be acceptable in a secular homeschool if they are written for a religious audience. Since our Golden Age of Islam unit came at the end of our history units for this year, and because we ran out of time and because it coincided with Ramadan, we didn't get through all the materials and projects we planned and additionally included other material we typically cover during Ramadan. The series by Goodword books by Saniyasnain Khan and the Biography of the Prophet by Lina Al-Keilany are two series we included in our unit that wasn't part of how we put the unit together. We also didn't have time to cover our geometry lessons related to this unit at this time, but as we continue with this unit in the future, those lessons will be added to our Golden Age of Islam blog post and video Playlist. Check out the video playlist for Islamic Empire unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxK5cemiemI&list=PLJxUV0rOnlxz1evmCq9EeELYcYjPBIIDH Check out the Islamic Empire Blog Post https://www.pepperandpine.com/the-golden-age-of-islam/ Golden Age of Islam Lesson Plans: https://www.pepperandpine.com/product/golden-age-of-islam-lesson-plan/ We didn't get through all our resources especially the books for my high schooler. As we complete them, you can find his review of those materials on the blog post. Check out the Lesson Plans for our Silk Road Unit: https://www.pepperandpine.com/product/silk-road-lesson-plans/ Check out the China Blog Post https://www.pepperandpine.com/ancient-china/ Check out the Marco Polo and Genghis Khan Blog Post https://www.pepperandpine.com/genghis-khan-marco-polo/ Mongolia Lesson Plans: https://www.pepperandpine.com/product/marco-polo-genghis-khan-unit-study-lesson-plans/ Ibn Battuta Lesson Plans: https://www.pepperandpine.com/product/the-travels-of-ibn-battuta-lesson-plans/ Check out the Ibn Battuta video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSPY9ToLElY&list=PLJxUV0rOnlxyQmTXowsRJByZCcYBz3PNj Check out the Silk Road Blog Post https://www.pepperandpine.com/the-silk-road/ Check out the video playlist for the Silk Road Unit https://www.pepperandpine.com/the-golden-age-of-islam/ Check out the video playlist for the Marco Polo and Genghis Khan Unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjfUq19_Q8&list=PLJxUV0rOnlxwrOI868UvWY1tmCZ71xX1p Check out the video playlist for the China unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZDiTwy0fSk&list=PLJxUV0rOnlxxpdH-g1S5-cf5-nS3B1yKK Find me here: https://twitter.com/PepperandPine https://www.instagram.com/pepperandpine/ https://www.facebook.com/pepperandpine https://www.pepperandpine.com