The History They Don't Teach You

Yasir QadhiNovember 1, 202673 min0 comments

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Islamic Civilization Colonialism Politics & Justice Current Affairs Muslim Identity History Zionism Palestine & Gaza

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In this first installment of a three-part historical series, the speaker delivers a crash course on the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, covering Ottoman Palestine, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate, and the 1948 Nakba. Emphasizing that every Muslim should know these facts, the lecture dismantles common myths — including the claim that Jews and Arabs have historically been enemies — and equips listeners with the historical literacy needed to engage confidently in contemporary discourse about Palestine and Gaza.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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