Mahmud Shakir


Mahmud Shakir, also known as Al-Sheikh Abu-Osama Mahmud Bin Shakir Shakir Al-Harastani, was a historian and an Islamic writer from Syria. He was born in Harasta, northeast of Damascus, in the month of Ramadan, 1932. He died in Al-Riyadh, on November 23, 2014.

Education and career

Mahmud Shakir studied elementary, secondary, and high school, and graduated in 1371 AH / 1952 AC. He received Sharia sciences education at the hands of some scholars in the mosques of his hometown. Later on, he joined the University of Damascus to study geography, and he graduated in 1956-1957 AC.
He was passionate about studying the sciences of history. He was outstanding when it came to the Islamic history, and he classified it in an innovative way. He excelled for his ability to word history from the Islamic point of view in all its details, from the past to present, in addition to presenting the events and their analysis. In his writing he had responded to some of the suspicions raised by the orientalists and their followers. He was interested in studying genealogy, and he excelled in it.
He moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1972, and worked as a professor of geography and Islamic history at the College of Social Sciences in Riyadh and Al-Qassim. He launched a radio program for the Quran Radio from Saudi Arabia called Geography of the Islamic World. He has more than two hundred works on history, Islamic ideology and geography. He also participated in developing curricula and study plans in the sciences of history and geography.
He died on November 23, 2014.

Works

History Books

  • "The Book of Islamic History Encyclopedia" –.
  • "The Islamic World - Series"
  • "Builders of The Islamic State Series, In The biography of The Companions"
  • "The Companions Series;"
  1. The caliphs of the Rashidun era series.
  2. The caliphs of the Omayyad era series.
  3. The caliphs of the Abbasid era series.
  4. The Caliphs in the era of Buyid control.
  5. ''Caliphs in the era of Seljuk control.''

    Books on geography

  • "The Citizen of the Islamic countries in Asia series."
  • "The Citizen of the Islamic countries in Africa series."
  • "Geographical disclosures, their motives - their truths."
  • ''"Geography of environments."''

    Books on Islamic history and ideologies.

  • "The basic premise in Islamic history."
  • "With Allah's prophets and messengers."
  • "Muslims under communist control."
  • "Muslims under capitalist control."
  • "A short trip with our history."
  • "Historical culture."
  • "Guidance and calendar during Islamic history."
  • "The identity of the Muslim Ummah."
  • "Thorns on the trail."
  • "Topics about the caliphate and the emirate."
  • "Our slow growth and the way forward."
  • "Muslims and public issues."
  • "Fading civilization."
  • "Morals deviation."
  • "Knowledge deviation or breaking wolves."
  • "And the mask was revealed."
  • "The way’s insight."
  • "Fallacies and their impact on the nation."
  • "Backwardness."
  • "Contemporary Women."
  • "Primitive groups."
  • "To the preachers."
  • "The seekers in life."
  • "Messages to the youth."
  • "Migration to Abyssinia."
  • "The homeless."
  • "Yarmouk battle field."
  • ''"The plight of Muslims in Chechnya."''

    New releases

  • "Pages from history."
  • "Biography of the Prophet Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Salam."
  • "The last of the prophets and messengers."
  • "The cunningness of the enemies and the children’s negligence."
  • "Historical monuments - lessons and examples."
  • "The middle nation."
  • "The ones promised with the everlasting paradise."
  • ''"Persians and Romans and their suspicious role throughout history."''