In collaboration with Manchester Evening Bible School, MCSCI is offering an on line evening class.
Understanding our Muslim Neighbours
Five weeks starting online or in person
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Islam is often in the news, usually for the wrong reasons. Increasingly we have Muslim neighbours and colleagues. What is Islam? What does it mean for the ordinary Muslims living around us? What should our attitude as Christians be? This course seeks to enable Christians to engage with their Muslim neighbours and colleagues with respect and with confidence.
The course will cover such subjects as:
- An overview of Islam in the UK.
- The Beliefs and Practices of Islam;
- Muhammad, the Qur’an and the Hadeeth.
- Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?
- Women in Islam
- Lived religion, folk practices and the spiritual world.
- The Pursuit of Inner Purity: Sufi Islam.
- Islamic Sects and streams; Fundamentalism.
- Making sense of Islam on the World Stage.
- Relating to our Muslim neighbours.
Teachers: Phil Rawlings and Ted Bearup