Quick question

[triskellian]

The religion of Muslims is Islam. The religion of Christians is Christianity. You can talk about 'John Smith's Christianity', but can you talk about (for example) 'Salman Rushdie's Islam'? It doesn't quite scan right to me. I want it to have an '-ism' or something at the end. Can anyone help?

Comments

[metame.livejournal.com]

Made me think about the fact that Muslims explicitly reject the idea that a person should be venerated as a route to Allah. They really aren't keen on any kind of personality cult which is in complete contrast to Christianity's dedication of churches to saints.

As such, I think we hear a lot about 'the Pope's Christianity', 'Henry V's Christianity' etc but we're completely unused to the idea of individual's Islamic faith.

More practically, I might stick with talking about Rushdie's beliefs, or Rushdie's faith (a lot of which will obviously be Islamic in nature).