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This is a 3D virtual tour of a mosque. Mosques are important to the culture since that is where they go to pray.

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Blue Mosque - 3D Virtual Tour

Blue Mosque virtual tours can be started by clicking the preview window or by downloading the stand-alone versions. Just drag the mouse to the direction you want to look. Use the scroll wheel to zoom at the details. Press F9 to get a list of the 3D sites you downloaded (residing in the same directory). To install the listed sites as a screensaver press F5. Our advise is to install all the sites, including Blue Mosque, as a screensaver. When the screensaver starts, a random site is chosen and shown around automatically (this gives the impression of looking at a documentary in HD quality). To see the usage of other keys press F1. Press Ecs to exit.

Panorama shootings for Blue Mosque were done in the years 2006 and 2008. Shooting equipment was Nikon D70 and D80 digital camera, 10.5 mm fisheye lens, remote control, panoramic tripod head and a tripod. For Blue Mosque 288+ pictures were taken. The pictures that are taken for different angles are later combined using a computer to form a full 360 degree panoramic view, surrounding the viewer both horizontally and vertically.

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Blue Mosque - 360Â° panoramic virtual tour - experience Blue Mosque as if you’re there!

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This source answers many questions one might have about the Islamic World and Muslims. It is presented in a way appropriate for the public school classroom and simple enough to read without getting lost.

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This is a John Green video giving a brief overview of the Islamic world in Africa. This would be a great video to watch as a class the first day to become familiar with phrases then as the unit progressed, be fully introduced to them.

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Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16

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This book is originally written as an adult book but it is presented in almost a children's book format. It is fully of information of the cultures history.

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This is an activity that includes many primary sources. It has the activity set up so the students have to explore the primary sources to find the answers to the project.

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This is an interactive tour of Mansa Musa's travels. Students can click on different places he went.

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Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
Excerpts from Ibn Battuta's journal that documented his travel to Mecca

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Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354

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I set out alone, finding no companion to cheer the way with friendly intercourse, and no party of travellers with whom to associate myself. Swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those glorious sanctuaries, I resolved to quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home.

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Differentiating between Sunni and Shia
This is a short video that explains some of the differences between the two major branches of Islam.

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What's the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims?

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Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali
A story about Mansa Musa and the beautiful Mali Kingdom. This would be a good book to look at not only Mansa Musa, but the architecture and city of Mali.

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Khephra Burns, Author, Leo Dillon, Illustrator, Diane Dillon, Illustrator , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Harcourt/Gulliver $18 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-200375-3

Evocative, finely wrought gouache paintings by the Dillons ( Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears) provide excellent accompaniment to this colorful introduction to the history of Mali. Burns ( Black Stars in Orbit: NASA's African American Astronauts) embarks in 14th-century West Africa, creating a slightly embellished (as per an author's note) account of the mystery and greatness of the Mali kingdom. Employing a combination of mythical elements and historical fact, the author sets in motion a chain of events during which 14-year-old Kankan is kidnapped by slave traders, wanders the desert for six years with a captor/mentor and, after an important revelation, eventually returns to his Mali homeland. Kankan has discovered that he is a descendent of the legendary king Sundiata and is destined to rule his people as Mansa Musa. Though it contains several fascinating episodes, the very lengthy, highly detailed text may be off-putting for the usual picture book audience. In addition, the plot slows and drifts off course as Kankan wanders the desert, and younger readers may have difficulty keeping the names of people and places straight. As a highlight, the illustrations bring alive historic Africa and its people, dressed in elegant, flowing garments, bright gold jewelry and carefully draped turbans. Flashes of purple, yellow, white and turquoise sparkle against a desert background. The book may also be useful as a first introduction to the Muslim faith. All ages. (Oct.)

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Children's Book Review: MANSA MUSA: The Lion of Mali by Khephra Burns, Author, Leo Dillon, Illustrator, Diane Dillon, Illustrator , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Harcourt/Gulliver $18 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-200375-3

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Khephra Burns, Author, Leo Dillon, Illustrator, Diane Dillon, Illustrator , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. Harcourt/Gulliver $18 (56p) ISBN 978-0-15-200375-3 Evocative, finely wrought gouache paintings by the Dillons ( Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears) provide excellent accompaniment to this colorful introduction to the history of Mali.

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Askia the Great Activity
This is a worksheet about Askia the Great and his contributions. I would modify this to make it more engaging possibly by having a class discussion about the questions or having a student assigned as Askia the Great to retell his contributions.

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360 Cities allows you to explore the City of Cordoba and the mosques and palaces that it has.

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360° panoramic photography by Luis Davilla. Visit us to see more amazing panoramas from Spain and thousands of other places in the world.

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These Islamic Manuscripts from Mali include many maps, images, and other documents that contain writing in Arabic.

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Islamic Manuscripts from Mali - Timbuktu in Space and Time - Maps - (Global Gateway from the Library of Congress)

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Timbuktu flourished because it was a center for transportation and overland trade. Situated at the edge of the Sahara Desert, it was both the first place that trans-Saharan caravans coming from the north stopped and the jump-off place for caravans traveling north across the desert to the Mediterranean basin.

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This video explains what the Niger was used for and how it affected the people around it. It also tells about the people that lived near the Niger River and how they interacted with each other and the land.

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This book gives a variety of information about the Sahara Desert. It includes information about its climate, the people, plants, trade, and many other things.

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the sahara desert (deserts around the world)

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science & nature - earth sciences - geography

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science & nature - environmental science & ecosystems

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children's / teenage general interest: nature

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juvenile nonfiction / science & nature / earth sciences / geography

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juvenile nonfiction / people & places / africa

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juvenile nonfiction / science & nature / environmental science & ecosystems

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juvenile nonfiction/people & places - africa

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juvenile nonfiction/science & nature - environmental science & ecosystems

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The Sahara Desert (Deserts Around the World)

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The Sahara Desert (Deserts Around the World) [Molly Aloian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This book describes the geological makeup of the Sahara Desert in North Africa. The biggest hot desert on the Earth

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This activity helps familiarize students with Mali, Timbuktu, and the Niger River. Students locate them on the map and learn about what it is like in this area.

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Lesson 1: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Geography of Mali (Student Version) | EDSITEment

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The ancient city of Timbuktu lies in West Africa in the present-day nation of Mali. This is a region of varied landscapes, ranging from sizzling desert sands to tropical jungle. The Niger River that flows through Mali has been an important trading highway as well as a source of subsistence for the local people since very early times.

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This is an interactive website where you can click on the places that Mansa Musa traveled on his journey to Meca. Teaching about him and the five pillars if Islam.

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This source has a lot about Muhammad's expedition and journey as just an overall source for the subject.

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Learning Objective

Explain the basis for opposition to Muhammad

Key Points

As Islam spread in Mecca, the ruling tribes began to oppose Muhammad's preaching and his condemnation of idolatry.

The Quraysh tribe controlled the Kaaba and drew their religious and political power from its polytheistic shrines, so they began to persecute the Muslims and many of Muhammad's followers became martyrs.

When Muhammad's wife Khadijah and uncle Abu Talib both died in 619 CE, Abu Lahab assumed leadership of the Banu Hashim clan and withdrew the clan's protection from Muhammad.

In 622 CE, Muhammad and his followers migrated to Yathrib in the Hijra to escape persecution, renaming the city Medina in honor of the prophet.

Among the first things Muhammad did to ease the longstanding grievances among the tribes of Medina was draft a document known as the Constitution of Medina.

Terms

Banu Hashim clan

One of Mecca's prominent families and part of the Quraysh tribe.

Mecca

The birthplace of Muhammad and the site of Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran, this city is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam.

Hijra

The migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in June 622 CE.

Medina

Muhammad's destination during the Hijra, which became the power base of Islam in its first century (renamed from Yathrib).

During the first three years of his ministry, Muhammad preached Islam privately, mainly among his near relatives and close acquaintances. According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad's wife Khadija was the first to believe he was a prophet. She was followed by Muhammad's ten-year-old cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib, close friend Abu Bakr, and adopted son Zaid. According to Islamic belief, in the fourth year of Muhammad's prophethood, around 613, he was ordered by God to make his propagation of this monotheistic faith public. Muhammad's earliest teachings were marked by his insistence on the oneness of God, the denunciation of polytheism, belief in the last judgment and its recompense, and social and economic justice.

Most Meccans ignored and mocked him, though a few became his followers. There were three main groups of early converts to Islam: younger brothers and sons of great merchants; people who had fallen out of the first rank in their tribe or failed to attain it; and the weak, mostly unprotected foreigners.

According to Ibn Sad, one of Muhammad's companions, the opposition in Mecca started when Muhammad delivered verses that condemned idol worship and polytheism. However, the Quran maintains that it began when Muhammad started public preaching. As Islam spread, Muhammad threatened the local tribes and Meccan rulers because their wealth depended on the Kaaba. Muhammad's preaching was particularly offensive to his own Quraysh tribe because they guarded the Kaaba and drew their political and religious power from its polytheistic shrines.

The ruling tribes of Mecca perceived Muhammad as a danger that might cause tensions similar to the rivalry of Judaism and Bedouin Polytheism in Yathrib. The powerful merchants in Mecca attempted to convince Muhammad to abandon his preaching by offering him admission into the inner circle of merchants and an advantageous marriage. However, Muhammad turned down both offers.

At first, the opposition was confined to ridicule and sarcasm, but later morphed into active persecution that forced a section of new converts to migrate to neighboring Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia). Upset by the rate at which Muhammad was gaining new followers, the Quraysh proposed adopting a common form of worship, which was denounced by the Quran.

Muhammad himself was protected from physical harm as long as he belonged to the Banu Hashim clan, but his followers were not so lucky. Sumayyah bint Khabbab, a slave of the prominent Meccan leader Abu Jahl, is famous as the first martyr of Islam; her master killed her with a spear when she refused to give up her faith. Bilal, another Muslim slave, was tortured by Umayyah ibn Khalaf, who placed more and more rocks on his chest to force his conversion, until he died.

Muhammad's wife Khadijah and uncle Abu Talib both died in 619 CE, the year that became known as the "year of sorrow." With the death of Abu Talib, Abu Lahab assumed leadership of the Banu Hashim clan. Soon after, Abu Lahab withdrew the clan's protection from Muhammad, endangering him and his followers. Muhammad took this opportunity to look for a new home for himself and his followers. After several unsuccessful negotiations, he found hope with some men from Yathrib (later called Medina). The Arab population of Yathrib were familiar with monotheism and were prepared for the appearance of a prophet because a Jewish community existed there as well. They also hoped, by the means of Muhammad and the new faith, to gain supremacy over Mecca; the Yathrib were jealous of its importance as the place of pilgrimage. Converts to Islam came from nearly all Arab tribes in Medina; by June of the subsequent year, seventy-five Muslims came to Mecca for pilgrimage and to meet Muhammad.

A delegation from Medina, consisting of the representatives of the twelve important clans of Medina, invited Muhammad as a neutral outsider to serve as the chief arbitrator for the entire community. There was fighting in Yathrib (Medina) mainly involving its Arab and Jewish inhabitants for around a hundred years before 620. The recurring slaughters and disagreements over the resulting claims, especially after the battle of Bu'ath, in which all the clans were involved, made it obvious that the tribal conceptions of blood feud and an eye for an eye were no longer workable unless there was one man with authority to adjudicate in disputed cases. The delegation from Medina pledged themselves and their fellow citizens to accept Muhammad into their community and physically protect him as one of their own.

The Hijra is the migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina, 320 kilometers (200 miles) north, in 622 CE. Muhammad instructed his followers to emigrate to Medina until nearly all of them left Mecca. According to tradition, the Meccans, alarmed at the departure, plotted to assassinate Muhammad. In June 622, when he was warned of the plot, Muhammad slipped out of Mecca with his companion, Abu Bakr.

On the night of his departure, Muhammad's house was besieged by the appointed men of Quraysh. It is said that when Muhammad emerged from his house, he recited the a verse from the Quran and threw a handful of dust in the direction of the besiegers, which prevented them seeing him. When the Quraysh learned of Muhammad's escape, they announced a large reward for bringing him back to them, alive or dead, and pursuers scattered in all directions. After eight days' journey, Muhammad entered the outskirts of Medina, but did not enter the city directly. He stopped at a place called Quba, some miles from the main city, and established a mosque there. After a fourteen-days stay at Quba, Muhammad started for Medina, participating in his first Friday prayer on the way, and upon reaching the city was greeted cordially by its people.

Among the first things Muhammad did to ease the longstanding grievances among the tribes of Medina was draft a document known as the Constitution of Medina, "establishing a kind of alliance or federation" among the eight Medinan tribes and Muslim emigrants from Mecca. The document specified rights and duties of all citizens and the relationship of the different communities in Medina (including between the Muslim community and other communities, specifically the Jews and other "Peoples of the Book"). The community defined in the Constitution of Medina, Ummah, had a religious outlook, also shaped by practical considerations, and substantially preserved the legal forms of the old Arab tribes.

The first group of pagan converts to Islam in Medina were the clans who had not produced great leaders for themselves but had suffered from warlike leaders from other clans. This was followed by the general acceptance of Islam by the pagan population of Medina, with some exceptions.

Around 628 CE, the nascent Islamic state was somewhat consolidated when Muhammad left Medina to perform pilgrimage at Mecca. The Quraysh intercepted him en route and made a treaty with the Muslims. Though the terms of the Hudaybiyyah treaty may have been unfavorable to the Muslims of Medina, the Quran declared it a clear victory. Muslim historians suggest that the treaty mobilized the contact between the Meccan pagans and the Muslims of Medina. The treaty demonstrated that the Quraysh recognized Muhammad as their equal and Islam as a rising power.

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Explain the basis for opposition to Muhammad As Islam spread in Mecca, the ruling tribes began to oppose Muhammad's preaching and his condemnation of idolatry. The Quraysh tribe controlled the Kaaba and drew their religious and political power from its polytheistic shrines, so they began to persecute the Muslims and many of Muhammad's followers became martyrs.

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The Prophet Muhammad Storybook – 3 (Goodword): Islamic Children's Books on the Quran, the Hadith, and the Prophet Muhammad

This books is a children's book but it's either one to be read to the class or the students need to be in an older grade level like 4th because it is a chapter book.

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the prophet muhammad storybook – 3 (goodword): islamic children's books on the quran

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The Prophet Muhammad Storybook - 3 (Goodword): Islamic Children's Books on the Quran, the Hadith, and the Prophet Muhammad

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The Prophet Muhammad Storybook 3 deals with the Prophet's preaching or dawah mission in Makkah. It shows how, despite immense opposition and persecution, the Prophet carried on with his mission of preaching the message of the one God. It highlights his patience, dedication, determination, ...

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This video discusses all of Mansa Musa in a kid friendly way and although it is a little lengthy if the teacher watches it beforehand they can decide what to keep in or cut out.

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Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16

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This is a compilation of different lessons that all work around The Great Zimbabwe but at different points in it the lifetime of the kingdom.

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The Educational Program of The Odyssey: World Trek for Service and Education is an around-the-world adventure in education, communication, and social change.

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Ancient Civ African Civ/ Islamic World Unit Plan F18