Islamic Festivals, Celebrations and Rites of Passage
Subjects / Religious Studies / Islam
Celebrations and Festivals are part of every religion. They mark special occasions, remembrances, people and events. Celebrations and festivals bring followers of religion together, and remind them of special events which are significant to their religion. Rites of Passage are ceremonies that mark events in a person's life. They usually take place at birth, when a couple get married and when someone dies. Other Rites of Passage mark the transition from childhood to adulthood and the entrance of a person to certain roles within the religion. In Islam, many of the festivals and celebrations recall events and experiences in the life of Muhammed (peace be upon him), the founder of Islam. In this title we will be looking at some of the most important festivals and celebrations, as well as rites of passage, marking the stages in a Muslim's life.
| Author: | Tim Bridgeman | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Carol McGuigan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-112-4 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-612-9 |
Chapters
- Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr
- Other Festivals in the Islamic Tradition
- Rites of Passage - Birth and Childhood
- Rites of Passage - Marriage and Divorce
- Rites of Passage - Death, Funeral Rites and Life after Death
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Arranged marriages
- Birth
- birth rites and the nurture of the young
- Birth rituals (including the aqiqa ceremony)
- Birth: Aqidah (sacrifice)
- Birth: khitan (circumcision)
- Celebration of Id-ul-Fitr and Id-ul-Adha
- Changing attitudes in the United Kingdom to cohabitation and marriage
- Changing attitudes to divorce in the United Kingdom
- Death
- death rituals (including Janazah prayers and burial)
- Death: preparation of the body, burial, mourning customs
- divorce
- Divorce conditions, Iddah and provision for the wife
- funeral rites
- Id-ul-Adha
- Id-ul-Adha: sacrifice
- Id-ul-Fitr
- Id-ul-Fitr: the end of Ramadan
- Initiation: aqidah
- Initiation: bismillah
- Initiation: khitan
- Initiation: welcome into the ummah
- life after death
- Marriage
- Marriage contract and dowry
- Marriage: mahr (marriage gift)
- Marriage: nikkah (contract)
- Muslim attitudes to birth control
- Muslim attitudes to divorce
- Muslim attitudes to marriage to non-Muslims
- Muslim attitudes to remarriage
- Muslim attitudes to the nature and purpose of marriage
- Muslim beliefs about the ethics of divorce
- Muslim funeral rites and mourning customs, and the ways in which these reflect belief and aim to support the bereaved
- Muslim marriage ceremonies, and the ways in which these reflect and emphasise Muslim teaching about marriage
- Ramadan
- Saum: fasting during Ramadan: Laylat-ul-Qadr
- Saum: fasting during Ramadan: requirements, exceptions and purposes
- Sawm - Ramadan
- Sawm in the month of Ramadan
- Sex and marriage to reflect the will of Allah
- the celebration of Id-ul-Fitr
- the marriage ceremony
- The practice and significance of sawm as the month of fasting in Ramadan
- The purposes of marriage in Islam, including the main features of a Muslim marriage ceremony (mahr, contract, khutbah)
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