Faces of Islam Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Listen to the Reed

  Profile of Turkish reed flute player Kudsi Erguner, a man whose life-long involvement with the Mevlevi, or 'whirling dervishes', has helped bring the sounds of Islam to the attention of Western audiences

• The Man Who Brought The Archers to Afghanistan

  New series examining of ways in which the laws of Islam are interpreted, drawing on the lives of four well-known people from contrasting backgrounds. The series opens with radio presenter John Butt, currently at work tackling drug problems and religious extremism in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan

• The Man Who Brought The Archers to Afghanistan

  The ways in which the laws of Islam are interpreted, illustrated by the lives of four well-known people from different backgrounds

• Rebel with a Cause

  Account of a Christian woman's conversion to Islam while traveling in the Middle East, and her work on the role of women, and the reconciliation of the three major monotheistic religions

• Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsoud

  With Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsoud, formerly Christian author Rosalyn Kendrick before her conversion to Islam, who is now a prolific writer on issues such as the role of women in the faith, and the Muslim view of Jesus

• Til the Raven's Wings Turn White

  Sultan Ghalib al-Qu'aiti talks about how his faith has enabled him to cope with being exiled since the withdrawal of British protection over the southern Arabian sultanate of Hadhramaut in 1967. Last in series