Who is Allah?

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Neighbours, side by side

Together

Open doors, shared days, remembering together, learning together and standing up to hate.

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Common Ground

From the screen to the street

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14 minPlaces to visitThese places of worship and museums welcome visitors, and many welcome school groups too.14 minDays out and things to do togetherIdeas for schools, faith groups and community groups: visits, shared meals, walks, film nights, social action, all through the year.5 minWords worth knowingTwenty words that matter to Jews, Christians and Muslims: what each means to the people who use it, how it gets misused, and how to say it well.9 minOvercoming hateHate grows when people are strangers. It shrinks when they meet. Here is what really helps, what you can do today, and who to call.10 minRemembering togetherA walled garden in Woking. A white marble dome on the Sussex Downs.2 minTalk CardsGood questions for a kitchen table, a classroom or a church, mosque or synagogue hall.9 minFastingTwenty-five hours without water. Forty days without meat. A month of nothing from dawn to sunset. And a Guru who said the truest fast is truth itself.8 minGivingA coin box by the door, a tenth of the wages, 2.5% of savings, an envelope on the plate.8 minThe Golden RuleTreat others as you would want to be treated.7 minHow we praySome sway, some kneel, some touch their foreheads to the floor, some sit in silence for an hour.7 minOne family albumOpen the album of Jews, Christians and Muslims and the same faces keep turning up. It begins with one household and two brothers at a graveside.4 minAlḥamdu lillāh: praise be to God'Praise and thanks belong to God.' The Arabic ḥamd joins praise and gratitude in one word.4 minAllāhu akbar: God is greater'God is greater', meaning greater than anything you can name or imagine. Often translated 'God is greatest'.All 28 →See every episode

Places to visit

Open doors across the UK

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Remembering together

Holocaust Memorial Day, Remembrance, and how each faith remembers

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Remembering togetherHolocaust Memorial Day, Remembrance, and how each faith remembersOpen →

Overcoming hate

What works, and who to call

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Overcoming hateWhat works, and who to callOpen →

Life's milestones

Birth, coming of age, marriage, death and mourning in three faiths

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Life's milestonesBirth, coming of age, marriage, death and mourning in three faithsOpen →

The shared table

Halal and kosher, fasts and feasts, eating together

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The shared tableHalal and kosher, fasts and feasts, eating togetherOpen →

Good neighbours through the year

Ramadan and Eid, Passover and Easter, the High Holy Days, Christmas and Hanukkah

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Good neighbours through the yearRamadan and Eid, Passover and Easter, the High Holy Days, Christmas and HanukkahOpen →

Young Explorers

Stories for children aged 7 to 11 and the grown-ups beside them

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For Schools

RE lesson starters and teacher briefings

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More to do together

Watch more: Together

6 films and talks, chosen for this page. They play here.

  • Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks speaks on interfaith dialogue in multicultural Britain

    The Rabbi Sacks Legacy · 4 min

    The Rabbi Sacks Legacy: Rabbi Sacks on interfaith relations.

  • Who Are Our Neighbours? – Abdal Hakim Murad

    Cambridge Muslim College · 21 min

  • We Stand Together in this World | Ismaili Sounds

    The Ismaili · 7 min

  • 3FF's Interfaith Education Workshops

    The Faith & Belief Forum · 3 min

    The Faith & Belief Forum: interfaith workshops in UK schools.

  • Five Ramadan Iftar Meals Around the World

    Great Big Story · 8 min

  • Abrahamic

    whoisallah.org.uk · 1 min

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Interfaith conversations

7 films and talks, chosen for this page. They play here.

  • Faith and the Challenges of Secularism: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue

    Baylor in Washington · 89 min

  • Unlocking Christian Art | [S03 E01] Interfaith Discussion - Abraham and Isaac | Bode-Museum

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · 18 min

  • EIW 2011: Reading Scriptures Together An Abrahamic practice for today, Professor David Ford, 16/2/11

    Cambridge ISoc · 67 min

  • Scriptural Reasoning: A How-to Guide

    Miriam Lorie · 8 min

  • Shared Values: an Interfaith Futures conversation with Esra Özyürek

    Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge · 21 min

  • Ways to connect – an Interfaith Futures conversation with Michael Wakelin

    Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge · 19 min

  • The Rabbi, the Vicar and the Imam

    Mark Winer · 10 min

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