Islam 101
Winter Term: 8 weeks from 18 January
Monday: 7.00pm-9.00pm
Tutor: Ms Adlin Adnan, MA
Course Fee: £88
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Programme Outline
This eight week course has been developed to offer an insight into the Muslim religion; its history and development; what it means to be Muslim; and the beliefs, rituals and symbols of the religion.
The course is ideal for anyone else wanting to just understand what Islam is all about, in an informal, relaxed environment.
- Introduction: Correcting common misconceptions: Pre-Islamic Arabia and the life of the Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the Last Messenger of Islam.
- The House of Islam: The Essence of Islam, the Canon of Islam and the role of Islam in world history, thought and civilization.
- Qur’an, the Word of God; Sunnah and the main sources of Islamic legislation: How Islamic practices, traditions and law are derived.
- The major doctrinal divisions within Islam: A brief introduction to Sunnism, Shi’ism and Ibadi’ism.
- The major ideological divisions within Islam: What ‘Traditional Islam’, Islamic Modernism and Islamic Fundamentalism are.
- Islam: A way of life. Islamic practices and worship; and the role of culture in the life of Muslims.
- Women and Islam. The place of women and their treatment in patriarchal societies.
- Islam in the 21st century and beyond: Islam, politics and the advent of the ‘Arab Spring’; the fiction of ‘Islamic Extremism’; the impact on Muslims of the war on terror; and the future of Islam in a global society.
Dates: 18 January – 14 March 2016 (not 15 February)
MONDAYS: 7.00pm-9.00pm
Course Fee: £88
Contact us by email: info AT benedictine-institute DOT org
OR contact us
by post: 74, Castlebar Road, Ealing, London W5 2DD
by telephone: +44 (0) 20 8862 2156
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