Islamic History Podcast
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We often overlook Islamic history as a learning tool. The history of Islam is not only important for Muslims, but important for everyone. Islam and the people who call themselves Muslims have made an enormous impact on our world. The Islamic History Podcast is about discovering that history in a fun and interesting way.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mutaki Ismail connects Islamic political history to belief, communal identity, and present-day Muslim debate with unusual attention to terms, sources, and geography.
Mutaki Ismail builds Islamic History Podcast through sustained historical narration, following political upheaval, military campaigns, religious movements, and struggles over authority across connected episodes.
A caliph's death comes with a Tabari citation and a medical caveat; bring your curiosity.
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A steady, orderly account of the rebellion, with its main events laid out clearly.
It begins with a buried figure in Rangoon and moves into the Sepoy Rebellion with a clear sense of sequence, tracing the cartridge controversy, religious offense, British overreach, and the fighting at Lucknow and Jhansi.
A plainspoken conversation about Black American Muslim life, memory, and community change.
This episode follows Black American Muslims through lived history rather than theory, with the host and Bilal Stroud keeping the focus on mosque growth, conversion patterns in the 1990s, and how the community in Atlanta has shifted.
A steady setup episode that turns the Umayyad crisis into a clear chain of causes.
Season 11 opens by setting up the Umayyad Caliphate with a clear run of causes rather than rushing to the main conflict. It moves from Berber grievance to the weakness of the caliphs after Hisham ibn Abdul Malik, then into costly war, heavier taxes, corruption, and the civil war…
A clear closing chapter that separates Mughal power from the broader argument over Islam and empire.
The closing episode works as a steady wrap-up of the Mughal story. It moves from Genghis Khan and Timur through Babur, Panipat, and the later emperors, then revisits the familiar questions around Akbar, Hindu marriages and alliances, and the later criticism of his reign.
A broad, informal tour of Muslim scientific and cultural contributions, from invention to the chess debate.
The episode moves away from the familiar ground of politics and warfare and toward Muslim scientific and cultural contributions, with invention, the elephant clock, and chess given most of the attention.
A careful Sudan primer that connects conflict, identity, and memory without rushing the story.
The conversation centers on Sudan, widening into the history beneath the conflict: Nubian identity, forced relocation, language loss, and the background that gives the present crisis more shape.
A conversational interview about conversion, Arabic, and the discipline behind understanding the language.
Imam Mark Manley's conversation centers on conversion, language, and the work of learning Arabic well enough to understand how it functions. Muttaki Ismail says he has followed Mark's work for close to 15 years, which gives the exchange an easy back-and-forth as it moves from…
A clear, patient interview on Black American Muslim history and the practical shape of faith.
Mutaki Ismail's story is handled with care here, moving from family background into the religious life shaped by conversion, identity, and inheritance. The strongest stretch is the one that slows down and lets him explain how Imam W. D.
Serious Islamic reminders for pressured lives.
Islamic teaching with moral weight.
Islamic reminders with moral weight.
Faith, justice, and the week’s hard questions.
Friday from the minbar, Birmingham.
A decapitated king changes everything.
Educational analysis of US-Israel relationship through 'Israel lobby' structure.
Season 11 of Islamic History Podcast opens as a framework episode for the Umayyad Caliphate, with the host saying the new season will use three episodes of at least two hours each and aim to finish by Eid al-Fitr in late March 2026.
Season 11 of the Islamic History Podcast resumes the Umayyad Caliphate story at a moment when the Syrian army is stretched across Khorasan, the Caucasus, Anatolia, India, North Africa, and France.
Islamic History Podcast episode 10-11, The Last Mughal, opens with Bahadur Shah Zafar’s burial in Rangoon in November 1862 and then rewinds to the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion.
Muhammad Shah Rangila's court was dominated by the Syed brothers, Nizam-ul-Mulk, and a widening fight over Malwa, Deccan authority, and the emperor's survival in 1720.
Season 11 keeps the show's long run through the Umayyad Caliphate moving.
Islamic History Podcast Episode 10-9, “The Company,” traces how the East India Company moved from Surat in 1609 and Madras in 1634 to revenue control in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa after the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765.
The episode centers on ICE, Border Patrol, and the killing of a man in Minnesota, which the speaker says is often misidentified because people group the agencies together.
Mutaki Ismail says his mother sent him and three sisters from Brooklyn to Senegal for three years and then to a Darul Ulum in Trinidad and Tobago for two more years.
Islamic History Podcast episode 10-2, “The Persian,” traces how Nadir Shah moved from Kabul and Peshawar into Delhi in 1739 after Mughal officials gave him evasive answers about Afghan rebels.
This episode serves as both a recap of previous seasons covering the Mughal Empire's history from Genghis Khan through Aurangzeb, and a preview of the final season that will cover the empire's decline from 1720 to 1858.
Imam Marc Manley discusses his 30+ year journey in Islam, emphasizing intellectual depth and commitment over conversion narrative.
This episode explores the transition of the Islamic Caliphate from a merit-based system to a hereditary monarchy, covering key figures like Abu Bakr, Uthman, Ali, and Muawiyah, and events such as the First and Second Fitna and the Massacre at Karbala.
The Islamic History Podcast bonus episode highlights Muslim scientific and cultural contributions, from coffee's discovery to mechanical engineering.
This bonus episode is a long conversation between the host and Majid Hussain of the Islamic Vibes Podcast.
Islamic History Podcast Episode 10-7, 'The Mercenary,' moves from Siraj Mal's Jat strategy around Bharatpur to the Battle of Buxar and the Treaty of Allahabad.
Ahmed Shah Bahadur ascended the Mughal throne on 29 April 1748 at age 22, and his first move was to appoint Safdar Jeng as Grand Vizier.
Islamic History Podcast episode 10-8, “The Rohila,” tracks the rise of Ghulam Qadir, the Rohilla son of Zabita Khan, from a captured child in Delhi to the man who seized the city in 1787.
Islamic History Podcast’s "10-10: The Sepoy" tracks how Mughal decline, East India Company expansion, and anti-Muslim and anti-Hindu pressures fed the road to 1857.
Islamic History Podcast Episode 10-4, “The Nizam,” follows Abid Khan, Ghaziuddin Feroz Jung, and Asav Jah as their family rises under Aurangzeb and later becomes central to Hyderabad.
Bilal Stroud shares his conversion story from Christianity to Islam, influenced by Public Enemy and Malcolm X, and discusses his mission to uplift Black American Muslims through Street Corner Dawah.
The UK riots get plain treatment here.
The Muslim Podcaster Show hosts Majid and Brother Muttaki Ismail for a discussion of the 2024 U.S.
Islamic History Podcast’s “Bonus: The Umayyad Caliphate 4-3 Promo” covers 114–120 AH, a stretch marked by drought, famine, plague, and repeated provincial unrest under Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
This episode of Islamic History Podcast, “10-6: The Prince,” follows the Mughal crisis from Ahmad Shah Durrani’s return to Delhi in 1756 to the Maratha defeat at Panipat in 1761.
Muttaki Ismail speaks with Mazen Khalil, a Sudanese-American activist and medical student, about Sudan’s current conflict, the country’s history, and why the war has received little attention in mass media and among American Muslims.
Islamic History Podcast closes Season 10 with a retrospective on the Mughal Empire, starting from Genghis Khan and Timur to Babur, Panipat in April 1526, and the reigns of Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb.