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Practical strategies for building understanding of Shi’a Islam at GCSE

This article provides practical strategies for building understanding of Shi'a Islam at the GCSE level. It covers key topics such as the Qur'an, the Imams, Sunni and Shi'a Islam, jihad, and more.

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Practical strategies for building understanding of Shi’a Islam at GCSE

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  1. Practical strategies for building understanding of Shi’a Islam at GCSE Deborah Weston

  2. Rate your subject knowledge

  3. Understanding and misunderstanding the Qur’an

  4. Note that Fatima was one of the daughters of the Prophet Muhammad, making Ali his cousin and son-in-law Uthman was the third Caliph After the death of Muawiya, Hussain refused to swear allegiance to Yazid as the next caliph, this ultimately led to the Battle of Kerbela in which Hussain was killed

  5. The disagreement over who should succeed Jafar Al-Sadiq led to the establishment of sevener Shi’as which include the Ismailis This branch has 12 Imams and are known as the Twelvers The Ismaili Branch of Shi’a Islam, understand this line to continue to the present day to the 49th Aga Khan

  6. Five Pillars of Sunni Islam • Shahadah: • Salah • Sawm • Zakah • Hajj

  7. Articles of Faith of Sunni Islam

  8. Sunni and Shi’a Islam • The story • Critical reading • Sunni Shi’a sorting

  9. Jihad

  10. Reciprocal Reading: Jihad • Jihad

  11. The constitution of Madinah • Written by the Prophet Muhammad in 622CE • 63 articles • Set out the way the diverse community in the first Islamic State should life together • Includes rights for women • Provides for the end of intertribal fighting • Governed around 10,000 citizens of Madinah • See http://www.constitutionofmadina.com/

  12. Alcohol • O you who believe! do not go near prayer when you are Intoxicated until you know (well) what you say … (4:43). • They ask you about intoxicants and games of chance. Say: In both of them there is a great sin and means of profit for men, and their sin is greater than their profit. (2:219).  • O you who believe! intoxicants and games of chance and (sacrificing to) stones set up and (dividing by) arrows are only an uncleanness, the Shaitan's work; shun it therefore that you may be successful.(5:90-91).

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