Articles about Islam
This article is for paying subscribers ‘Following Acts 7–10 is impossible for a Muslim living in a non-Muslim country’
The title of this article is taken from a 12-mark question at GCSE, and it raises an interesting question. We will think about answering this question to GCSE standard using the music of Canadian Muslim hip hop duo...
This article is for paying subscribers The ‘Islam in Britain’ quiz in action:
My Year 11s were greeted with REtoday’s ‘Muslims in Britain today: a reality check’ on their first day back after the holidays. It looked like a win-win; they show off their knowledge, I gain a sense of any...
This article is for paying subscribers We asked people from different religions and beliefs to tell us what it means to them to ‘sing their own song’
Here are replies from a Buddhist, a Humanist, a Christian, a Jewish person and a Muslim. Read these with your older pupils, and ask them to think of their own answers to the interview questions we used. The questions...
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A well-presented book that teachers may find useful to inform them of the meanings and pronunciation of the 99 names of Allah. The book also gives much further insight into Islam with stories and explanations of key...
Faith in science? Faith in God?
This term’s theme is about the nature of faith and about the frontiers and borders between science and religions. We invited people from different religions and beliefs to contribute a personal perspective on the...
Lesson spinning in RE
How and why a teacher might make use of contemporary popular culture, or popular items that could be classed as a craze, is always potentially controversial. Here Neil McKain satirises the potential use of them as...
This article is for paying subscribers Applying revisionist perspectives to a study of the Qur’an
The study of Islam in universities and other academic institutions is often different to the study of Judaism and Christianity. This is because, unlike the Gospels and the Hebrew Bible, the methods of form criticism...
This article is for paying subscribers Islam and science:
Letter writing is often suggested by textbooks as a way to enable pupils to respond to an issue. In this example, we go further, and offer four ‘letter starts’ that address key issues in Islam and science, with...
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This article is for paying subscribers Islam and gender: a progressive voice
Yafa Shanneik is a lecturer at the University of South Wales. She offers insight into gender and Islam for students learning about Islam for examinations.
This article is for paying subscribers Teach through song: songs for the secondary classroom
In this article Chris Hancock offers two sets of songs to use for secondary RE. On this page are songs through which you might teach some basic concepts in subject knowledge, and on the next page there are some songs...
This article is for paying subscribers Christians singing their own song in Calais’s refugee camp
We wanted to explore the controversy that arose when BBC’s Songs of Praise was broadcast from a makeshift church in the ‘Calais Jungle’ refugee camp last summer.
This article is for paying subscribers Europe’s refugee crisis: one personal response
Aaminah Verity is a young Muslim from England who is studying to be a GP. She volunteered to work in medical refugee camps, first in Slovenia, and then, for six weeks, on the Greek island of Chios. She set up a blog...
This article is for paying subscribers The wisdom of dialogue
This article is for paying subscribers The Qur’an is a lantern Wisdom in Islam
This article is for paying subscribers Sing your own song
Everybody sang. The original musical instrument is the human voice.