In the making
Tour / Learn
The museum is big and you may not know where to start. Tour / Learn offers short, ordered pathways, each with a clear goal, that take you step by step through the museum's own pages, or show you the whole route at once.
This section is being built. We have opened five trial pathways so you can see the idea, and we are preparing a list of the 300 best pathways anyone can follow, opening each as its entries are ready. The rest of the museum stays as it is.
Pathways you can try now
Five trial pathways built on the museum's current pages. Their final form, with a step-by-step view and a whole-route view, comes at a later point in the plan.
Islam in Thirty Minutes
An introductory trail for those who have not known Islam before: the meanings of Islam, iman and ihsan, the five pillars and how they are performed, then who the Prophet is, how the message began and where the Hijri calendar starts.Trail · min · 0 stepsThe Meccan Period: From the Cave to the Hijra
A chronological trail through the years of the call in Mecca, from the descent of the revelation in the cave of Hira to the Hijra, in twelve events ordered as they unfolded.Trail · min · 0 stepsThe Two Emigrations to Abyssinia
A short lesson on the first departure from Mecca: why they went to Abyssinia, who sheltered them, what happened there and how they returned, with the differing accounts of their return.Trail · min · 0 stepsThe Women Around the Prophet: Twelve Lives
A trail through the lives of twelve women from the Prophet's circle — from the steadfast in Mecca to the emigrants, the fighters and the Mothers of the Believers — known by what has been transmitted of them.Trail · min · 0 stepsFrom Opposition to Islam: Those Who Changed Sides
A trail through twelve places in the stories of those who opposed the call in Mecca and then entered Islam, from Umar to the Muslims of the conquest, and then the category of 'those whose hearts were to be reconciled'.Trail · min · 0 steps
What you will find here
- Choose what you want to understand: a phase of history, a group of personalities, a group of events, an idea, a place, a text or a hard question.
- Walk it step by step, or see the whole route at once as a list, a timeline and a map.
- Every pathway states its goal: what you will know, and be able to place, by the end.
- An honest time for each: ten minutes, half an hour, two hours or a week of evenings.
- Your progress is kept in your browser only, with no account and no AI answering you: the pathways are written and reviewed.
- Every step is a cited page of the museum, with side steps for going deeper or hearing the other view that never block the way.
Three hundred pathways in preparation
During planning, AI proposes the list of pathways, then people review and order it. None of that runs while you visit.
| Eras and phases | 40 |
| Personalities and groups | 55 |
| Events grouped together | 40 |
| Ideas | 45 |
| Places and cities | 30 |
| Texts and sciences | 30 |
| Art | 20 |
| Living culture today | 15 |
| Hard questions with their voices | 15 |
| Starter paths by visitor and time | 10 |
| Total | 300 |