Department of Religion & Human Values: Recent submissions

  • Religious Language and the Charge of Blasphemy: In Defence of Al-Hallaj 
    Abdul-Hamid, Mustapha (University of Cape Coast, 2013-08)
    On the 24th of March 922CE, a Muslim mystic was executed in Baghdad for the alleged crime of blasphemy. Husayn Al-Mansur better known by the nickname Al-Hallāj had his hands and feet struck off and hanged on a gibbet in ...
  • Christian-Muslim relations in Ghana: a model for world dialogue and peace. 
    Abdul-Hamid, Mustapha (University of Cape Coast, 2011-06)
    The relations between Christians and Muslims has been a shaky one for centuries. Islam and Christianity are locked up in competing truth claims that has often led its adherents to resort to force to drive home the truth ...
  • Muslim ‘Priesthood’ in Dagbon: in Search of a Definition 
    Abdul-Hamid, Mustapha (University of Cape Coast, 2010-09)
    Dagbon refers to the geographical area occupied by the Dagomba ethnic group in the Volta Basin in Ghana’s administrative region called the Northern Region. The Dagomba are a predominantly islamised people whose social, ...
  • Islam, Politics and Development: negotiating the future of Dagbon. 
    Abdul-Hamid, Mustapha (University of Cape Coast, 2011)
    Dagbon is the territory that is inhabited by the Dagomba people. Dagombas are part of the Mole-Dagbani speaking people, having descended from a common ancestor with the Moshis, Mamprusis and Nanumbas. Dagbon is in the ...

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