What You Should Know About Palestine: Modern History

Yasir QadhiOctober 10, 202672 min0 comments

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In this first installment of a three-part series, the speaker delivers a foundational crash course on the modern history of Palestine from the Ottoman period through 1948. Covering the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate, and the Nakba, he explains how three mutually contradictory colonial promises — made without any Palestinian input — led directly to the creation of Israel and the displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians. The lecture emphasizes the importance of Muslims knowing these historical facts in order to engage confidently in contemporary discourse about Gaza and Palestine.

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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