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.
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Imam Husayn, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, together with seventy-two of his companions, was brutally massacred on Ashura Day, 680 on the plain of Karbala in Iraq. This event acts as a clarion cry for Shi’a Muslims, that they too should stand
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The Church of Ireland held a national in-service training day in Dublin in 2006 at which Chris Hewer spoke and later contributed a paper (see Introduction to Islam on this website). There were several “Hard Questions” left hanging on this day, which