Both Christianity and Islam operate within certain conceptual models or paradigms. All too often, when someone from one faith seeks to understand the other, they try to make that faith fit their own paradigm instead of entering into the paradigm of the …
A paradigm shift in understanding Christianity and Islam Read More »
The name of Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Kahn is little known today, but any man who can lead one hundred thousand Pashtun warriors as a disciplined army committed to the nonviolent struggle for the liberation of India from British rule is worthy …
Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – ‘The Muslim Gandhi’ Read More »
As part of the GCSE Religious Studies: Islam resource (see the button above), two new articles have been added: A Sunni paradigm of Islam and The Shi’a perspective on Islam.
Hundreds of Muslim scholars from 120 countries gathered in Morocco and drew up a formal statement on the rights of religious minorities in Muslim lands. The Marrakesh Declaration
Have you read the “Amman Message”? Developed by Muslim scholars in 2004/5 and signed by Heads of State from Muslim countries around the world and the most senior Islamic scholars from each country. Click on the link below: Amman Message
Who is qualified to say how Islamic is the self-styled “Islamic State”? Click on the link below to hear what leading Muslim scholars from around the world have written in a joint “Open Letter” on the subject. Letter to Baghdadi
The Catholic Bishops of Germany have a national information, resource and training centre for dialogue with Islam and Muslims, called CIBEDO, in Frankfurt. I was invited to lead a seminar there in October 2014 to explore “The training of Christian workers for …