Resources
Welcome to the Hikma Platform.
We pray this introduction to our resources will be a blessing to you and your church.
We have developed a resources library of existing material on BMB discipleship, to share and signpost it to the global church and facilitate interaction/collaboration between BMBs. This library is produced in collaboration with the Paths of Life network and is hosted by Word of Life.
Most resources can be viewed by anyone, but full access to this library is available to members of the Partnership. Find out more about joining us here.
To submit your work, please read our Inclusion Criteria document and then contact us via parsa@word.org.uk
Highlights from the database:
Genesis 1-11
Genesis is the book of beginnings; and creation begins with light. Most religious people live with shuttered windows, receiving light only from their own people and their own tradition. Genesis 1–11 calls us to recognize all peoples as created by God and under the rainbow covenant of his light.
This commentary opens windows on seeds of truth from Genesis 1-11 which are planted in the various environments “in front of the text” – including the New Testament, rabbinic tradition, the Qur’an, and Bangladeshi culture. It examines those seeds in their original seedbed, discerning how their truths will unfurl from the fragrant Genesis 1-11 bud of theology through the blessings given to Eve, Noah, and Abraham.
You Are Jesus, and I Am Your Bird’: Christ, Persian Poetry, and Theological Imagination in the Iranian Diaspora
This article explores the potential of classical Persian poetry, and its depictions of Jesus in particular, to inform and expand missiological engagement with the Iranian diaspora. Following a discussion of three poetic representations of Jesus, consideration is given as to how these representations might serve as sites for both creative evangelistic endeavour and as a potential source of reflection for Iranian Christians.
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OUR RECENT BOOKS
'Algerian and Christian'
By Patrick Brittenden (2025)
This book invites readers into the complex, often painful, yet deeply hopeful journey of following Jesus in a land where faith in Christ is seen as foreign. In a country founded on a vision of being irreducibly Muslim and Arab, what does it mean to be both fully Algerian and fully Christian?
Drawing on years of ministry engagement, Pat Brittenden explores how Believers of Muslim Background (BMBs) are growing in faith amidst pressure, suspicion, and cultural dislocation. Through the lenses of Berber identity, Algerian Islam, and the influence of state education, he offers a compassionate and contextual approach to theological formation.
At the heart of this book is the idea of liminality—the experience of living between worlds. While often marked by pain and marginalization, this in-between space can also become a place of freedom, transformation, and fruitful mission.
For missionaries and church leaders walking alongside emerging movements, this book offers not just insight, but encouragement: that God is at work in the margins, and that the Algerian Church, though small and suffering, carries within it a vibrant, locally rooted witness to the Gospel.
‘From Conflict to Hope: Voices from Emerging Indigenous Leaders of North African, Middle Eastern and Iranian Christians’
Edited by Roy Oksnevad and Sama Adam (2024)
This book's content comes out of a consultation for BMB church leaders from North Africa, the Middle East, and Iran. The consultation provided a safe place to address conflict from their lived experiences associated with cultural patterns of miscommunication, shame, leadership, and mediation.
There were honest discussions about what it looks like to follow Christ and the challenges involved in cutting a new path that will not be understood by the majority of the people. The attendees of the consultation invite the body of Christ to join them in the discussion as they navigate the complexities of breaking free from religious and cultural strongholds that besets the church from an Islamic heritage.
This book presents daring and honest material to a wider audience in the hope and expectation that it will contribute to the development of healthy, vibrant fellowships in many contexts.