Islamic Studies

104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.

Early Years

• Bismillah and Alhamdulillah
• Allah made everything
• Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
• Being kind and sharing
• The masjid
• Ramadan and Eid
• Salah — talking to Allah
• The Quran — Allah's special book
• Getting ready for prayer: wudu
• InshaAllah and MashaAllah
• Angels, simply
• Being patient: sabr
• The Kaaba: which way we face
• Hearing the call to prayer
• Dua: simple prayers
• Five times a day

Key Stage 1

• The five pillars, simply
• How Muslims pray
• The Quran, our book
• Good manners (akhlaq)
• Stories of the prophets
• Muslims around the world
• Big questions
• Where Muslims look for guidance
• Islamic art and why it uses patterns
• The Prophet's early life
• The mosque and its parts
• Ramadan and fasting
• Belief in angels
• The call to prayer (adhan)
• Zakat and giving
• The two Eids

Key Stage 2

• Where Islamic teaching comes from
• The life of the Prophet ﷺ
• Zakat and caring for others
• Ramadan in depth
• Hajj: the journey
• Islam in Britain
• Art, calligraphy and the mosque
• Salah: how and why Muslims pray
• The Quran: revelation and preservation
• The companions and the early community
• Akhlaq: character and how it grows
• Rights and responsibilities to others
• Islam and other faiths
• Tawhid: the oneness of Allah
• The prophets before Muhammad ﷺ
• Angels: who they are and what they do
• Dhikr and du'a: remembering Allah
• Halal and haram in daily life
• Jumu'ah: the Friday prayer
• The adhan: the call to prayer
• The 99 names of Allah
• Compiling the Quran: one official copy
• Eid in Britain today
• One ummah, many cultures
• Al-Amin: the trustworthy
• Forgiveness: the Prophet's ﷺ example
• Khalifah: caring for the earth
• Ibrahim: father of three faiths
• The Day of Judgement: belief in the Akhirah
• Isa and Maryam: shared figures
• Growing up Muslim in Britain
• Asking a scholar: what a fatwa is

Key Stage 3

• The six articles of faith
• Sunni, Shia and the schools of law
• Halal, haram and daily choices
• Islamic civilisation and science
• Islamic ethics and modern questions
• Living as a Muslim in a plural society
• Tawhid: the oneness of God
• The Sunnah and how hadith are graded
• Zakat, riba and Islamic finance
• Art, architecture and the question of images
• Angels, jinn and the unseen world
• The prophets and the finality of prophethood
• The Quran and earlier scripture
• The Quran in daily life: memorisation and tajwid
• Sufism: the inward dimension of Islam
• Fasting beyond Ramadan: voluntary worship
• Waqf: charitable endowments that outlast their founder
• Trade and the spread of Islam across the world
• Women scholars in Islamic history
• Everyday inventions from the Muslim world
• Honesty in business and trade
• Social media, privacy and online conduct
• The Pact of Madinah: a case study in pluralism
• Thinking critically about media representation

GCSE

• Writing about beliefs with evidence
• Beliefs about God, compared
• Practices and their meaning
• Crime, punishment and justice
• Family, community and life stages
• Revision and exam technique
• Peace and conflict
• Religion and life
• Festivals and commemorations
• Akhirah: the afterlife
• The origins of the universe: creation and science
• Sources of authority: Quran and Sunnah
• Calligraphy: the art of the word
• Akhlaq: character at GCSE depth
• Fiqh of worship: conditions and what invalidates them
• Tafsir: how the Quran is interpreted

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