This PowerPoint slides are one of the 12 series of slide shows. It is based on the book 'The History of Islamic Thought' written by Dr, Mayeser Peerzada and Dr. P.S. Masood Jamali.

1. History of Islamic Thought
Session II
Education during the rightly guided Caliphs
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2. Period of the Rightly guided Caliph
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3. Abu Bakr ( Caliph for 2 yrs)
Turmoils of False
Prophets like
Musailimah,
Sajah etc
Deniers of Zakah
Riddah war and
the Battle of
Yamamah led to
the martyrdom of
39 best recitors
and the huffas of
the Quran
Alarming situation
– Zaid bin Thabit
chosen as
incharge of the
committee to
compile the
Quran
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4. Umar ( Caliph for 10 ½ yrs )
 People gathered around the Masjid to form Halaqah (no.
4900)
 Written communication very important
 Letters between military commander gave rise to the introduction
of Hijri Calendar
 Register maintained to keep a record of the members in the
community
 Insufficient knowledge of Islamic Law would debar a person from
running a business in the market
 Supervision of Education
 Abu Sufyan was to supervise the Educational activity
 Abu Darda after fajr supervise memorization of the Quran and
those who complete would be taken for higher studies in Quran
and Islamic knowledge
 Salary of 15 dirhams given to the teacher
 Abu Musa alAshari made 10,000 memorise the Quran – he was
gifted
 Punishment to those who fail to achieve the minimum level
 Husain ibn Har sent a letter to Umar consisting of mistakes – his
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5. Uthman ( 12 yrs) and Ali ( 5yrs)
In the army at
Azerbaijan- the
Quran recited
with mistakes –
Hudhaifah
brought this to
the notice of
Uthman
The Quran was
copied and
sent to Kufa,
Makkah, Syria,
Yemen and
Bahrain
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6. Fruits of Knowledge
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7. Contribution to acquire knowledge
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8. Mawaali
Definition /Rights /Responsibility
Muhammmad ibn Sirin’s father was a slave of Anas.
Anas got his niece married to him
The slave Rufay ibn Mihran alias Abu Aaliyah while
serving hs mistress memorised the Quran and learnt
how to read and write
Mujahid ibn Jabr a freed slave of an eminent scholar
Hasan al Basri’s father Yasar was a slave freed by
Zaid bin Thabit
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9. Outcome
A conversation
between Shihab ibn
Zuhri and ummayad
Caliph Abdul Malik
reveals that all the
religious leader of
Makkah, Yaman,
Egypt, Syria, between
Tigris and Euphrates
and Basra were once
a slave – he sighs a
relieve when he
learns that atleast in
Kufa is not a mawali
People flocked
around Abdullah ibn
Mubarak, looking at
that sight, Zubaydah
the wife of Harun
Rashid exclaimed ,”
By God this is real
Kingdom, unlike the
kingdom of Harun
where people have to
be collected by force.”
These scholars were
from menial
profession – like
tailors, butchers etc.
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10. Women Scholars
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11.  Imam Ghazali pointed out that
The Rulers are
degeneration of the
responsible for the people
and the religious scholars
are responsible for the
degeneration of the Kings
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12.  Jazakumullahukhair
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