Articles about Islam
This article is for paying subscribers Real voices
In keeping with our theme of messy religions and worldviews, we sought contributions from people whose beliefs and ways of living do not fit neatly into the traditional categories we often refer to in RE. Here they...
This article is for paying subscribers Hoping for world peace
His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the Fifth Caliph of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim community. It was my honour and privilege to interview him early in 2023 at the community’s headquarters in Tilford, near...
This article is for paying subscribers What’s worth celebrating?
We asked members of different faith and belief communities a set of questions about their own lives of celebration. Here Buddhist, Bahá’í, Christian, Sikh and Muslim respondents explain what celebration means for...
This article is for paying subscribers Young Muslims and experiences of stereotyping
RE Today’s national Muslim youth survey (2022) enabled over 200 young British Muslim people aged 11–18 to give their views, opinions and ideas on wide-ranging questions that explore ways in which being a young...
This article is for paying subscribers ‘Happy birthday, Prophet Muhammad’: honour or heresy?
Zameer Hussain considers the controversy within Islam about the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday. Read the article with your learners and discuss the questions at the end.
This article is for paying subscribers Religion yesterday and tomorrow
GoharIhsanis Chair an of the North East Islamic Centre for Education
This article is for paying subscribers Jerusalem: a mosaic of cultures and identities
Mohammed Ali Amla, Youth & Partnerships Director, offers an introduction to the education charity Solutions Not Sides.
This article is for paying subscribers What do young Muslim people value about the life of the mosque?
Lat Blaylock reports the results of RE Today’s national Muslim youth survey (2022). This survey enabled more than 200 British Muslim people aged 11–18 to give their views, opinions and ideas on wide-ranging...
This article is for paying subscribers Rais Bhuyan: an amazing story of forgiveness
In this study, pupils learn about forgiveness from an Islamic example, connecting to Qur’anic text, a Hadith of the Prophet, contemporary concerns about fanaticism and far-right extremism, and some ethical and...
Religion and RE: yesterday and tomorrow
RE is a subject with a past and a future, linked in all kinds of ways. Our communities press our governments across the UK to change the subject to be better suited to learning in the coming decade.
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
We invited members of different communities to share their ideas about the theme of REToday for this term, and the following pages give their views. You could use these questions with senior students in your school as...
This article is for paying subscribers RSE from an Abrahamic perspective: what sort of ‘worldview’?
Aliya Azam explores how her Shi’ah Muslim worldview relates to the new requirements of Relationships and Sex Education. What can we see when looking at issues about sex and
This article is for paying subscribers Proud to be a Muslim?
In our British Muslim Youth Survey we inquired among more than three hundred Islamic school pupils aged 11–18. The survey was completed with the supervision of RE teachers in about twenty different schools. Some...
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
Eleven worldview questions: a way of opening up the concept of worldviews for your pupils
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
This term’s theme of pilgrimage and the journey of life led us to invite people from different communities to answer a set of questions from the perspective of their religion or worldview. The same seven questions...
This article is for paying subscribers Shi‘a Muslim pilgrimages: journeys of the heart
In Islamic spirituality, the heart, not the brain, is responsible for deep understanding, and the place where true knowledge is kept. In Arabic, the word for heart is ‘qalb’, which literally means ‘that which...
This article is for paying subscribers Researching the religions and worldviews in RE: perspectives from inside a faith/worldview
Each issue of REtoday includes a set of pages from different writers to help RE teachers understand insider views. This issue is about RE and research, and we invited responses to the questions below from...
This article is for paying subscribers Stories of forgiveness: an Islamic exmaple
Karen Turner teaches RE in Nottinghamshire, and supports REtodayas a member of the Editor’s Panel. She found some fresh insights into forgiveness among her pupils when she studied an Islamic story with them.
This article is for paying subscribers A new plain English translation: The Majestic Qur’an
REtodayinterviews the translator, Dr Musharraf HussainOBE, DL, about his ‘labour of love’ – to make the meaning of the Qur'an plain in English to young people.
This article is for paying subscribers What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain? Talking about identity in the classroom
In an article for Professional REflection in REtoday, Jenny Berglund and Bill Gent suggested using ‘three Bs’ to think of the interconnected, overlapping dimensions of religious identity: believing, belonging...