Iraqi Baccalaureate Islamic case studies
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The Islamic Education paper in the Iraqi Baccalaureate is a compulsory subject examination for secondary-school candidates in the general and applied branches, sat as part of the national baccalaureate session. It assesses the religious education curriculum taught in Iraqi preparatory schools, drawing on the prescribed Qur'anic passages, hadith selections, creed, jurisprudence, prophetic biography, ethics and general Islamic culture. The Iraqi Baccalaureate Islamic case studies are 5 cases and about 4,831 words.
1The Ramadan Circle: A Vowel, a Half-Verse, and a Madd
During Ramadan revision for the provincial Qur'an competition, three problems surface in one week at the girls' secondary school circle in Mosul. Layla, 17, recites Surah al-Fatihah as 'an'amtu 'alayhim' instead of 'an'amta 'alayhim', and she cannot hear the difference when the recording is played back; she says her father taught her this way.
913 words, about 5 min2The Rajab Booklet: A Chain, a Reward, and a Paid Printer
At the mosque in Karbala, the youth committee has printed 2,000 copies of a 12-page booklet for Rajab. Page 7 gives a report it labels a hadith: whoever fasts the twenty-seventh of Rajab and prays twelve rak'ahs between Maghrib and 'Isha will receive the reward of a thousand martyrs.
935 words, about 5 min3The Basra Circle: Tawassul, Takfir, and a Verse About the Throne
A 19-year-old engineering student, Omar, says his 20-year-old cousin has joined a study circle meeting in a rented flat in Basra, and three things now worry him. First, the circle teaches that anyone who says 'ya Rasul Allah' or asks the Prophet for intercession after his death has committed major shirk, and that the local imam, who ends his du'a with 'bi-jah al-Nabi', is a mushrik whose prayer must not be joined.
971 words, about 5 min4Rania's Shift: A Cast, a Ten-Minute Break, and Two Weeks of Doubt
Rania is a 24-year-old nurse at a teaching hospital in Baghdad. She works 12-hour shifts, 7 a.m.
975 words, about 5 min5Hudaybiyyah in the Exhibition Hall: Three Years, a Pledge, and Umar's Question
In a school 'Seerah and leadership' unit in Erbil, four 17-year-olds are preparing a 15-minute presentation on the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah (6 AH). Their draft makes four claims.
1,037 words, about 5 min