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Welcome to the blog

Al-Salam alaikum and welcome.

This blog has been created primarily to serve as a learning aid for students taking my courses namely, modern history of Europe, Muslim nations in contemporary history and Introduction to history.

Hafiz

Development of History: An Overview

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The Nations built upon Sand: Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon

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On History

Salaam to all HIST 1000 Sec. 7 students.

Announcement

1. No class on 8th October (i will be away on research obligation at UniMAP. A make-up class will be on 30th October during regular time)

2. Mid-Term for all HIST 1000’s sections will be centrally-organized on 1st November 2012 at 8 pm Venue: Banquet Hall, CAC.

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Diploma in Islamic Studies (2011) (downloadable)

 

Lecture 1_Sirah etc

Lect2_Makkan Phase Pdf

Lec3_Hijrah & Building State in Madinah

Lec 4_ Jews Widaq

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.constitution.org/cons/medina/con_medina.htm (Constitution of Madinah  taken from A. Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad — A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1955; pp. 231-233. Numbering added. )

http://www.ijtihad.org/compact.htm (The Compact of Medina: 
A Constitutional Theory of the Islamic State by  Dr.Muqtader Khan)

 

 

Iranian Revolution Slides

Salaam

As requested the full version of IR’s slides.

IranianRev_classversion (click to download)

Best wishes in the final examination.

After Tunisian and Egyptians, Algerians demand democracy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/25/egypt-protests-mubarak

http://minx.cc/?post=311218

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2048975,00.html (Will Algeria be the next regime to fall?)

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/02/11/Will_February_12_Bring_Revolution_to_Algeria/ (Will Feb 12 bring revolution to Algeria?)

Iranian Revolution: Long Term Causes

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Tunisian President Toppled after 23 Years in Power

Demonstrators celebrate Tunisian President's Removal from Power

 

http://allmediany.com/details_news_article.php?news_artid=556

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110115/wl_africa_afp/tunisiapoliticsunrest

The Emergence of Saudi Arabia

 

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Syllabus HIST 4130

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Versailles Slides

As promised, the non-d/loadable version of T of Versailles below.

WW1: What Lessons can we learn from this madness?

Role Play: If you were a statesman/policy maker on the eve of WW1,  what & how would you handle the conflict (differently), to avoid it from escalating into WW1.  What could you do  to avoid this madness called the “great war”? Come up with your plans/strategies.

Slides

Terms:

Causes–Immediate & Root Causes

Franz Ferdinand

Austrian-Hungarian Empire

The Black Hand

Triple Alliance vs. Triple Entente

Root Causes: Alliance System, Nationalism, Militarism, The Mood of 1914

New Imperialism

Slides

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