Academia

The Aziz Foundation

The Aziz FoundationThe Aziz Foundation is a family charitable foundation. Its flagship programme is the Masters Scholarships programme which awards...

Al-Mahdi Institute

Al-Mahdi InstituteThe Al-Mahdi Institute (AMI) assimilates traditional Twelver seminary scholarship with modern approaches to the study of Islam. The Director...

Cambridge Muslim College

Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College is an independent higher education institution, focused on developing and disseminating Muslim thought leadership based...

Ebrahim college

Ebrahim College was established in 2003 as a Darul Uloom style seminary appropriate for the modern world. The aim was...

CIRE

CIRE is a London-based research centre dedicated to research that will inform Islamic thought, Islamic sciences and Islamic education. It...

Al Salam Institute

Al-Salam Institute was established in Oxford (UK) in 2006 in order to provide students and working professionals with the opportunity...

EMBS was founded in 1988 as a self-help business service for racialised minority groups in Oxford. One of its founders...

Balliol College

In trying to identify some of the earliest Muslim students to matriculate at the University after the enactment of the...

Trinity College

Brothers Wasif Ali and Naseer Ali Mirza became the first racialised minority and Indian students to be enrolled at Trinity...

Somerville College

Somerville College houses archival materials related to the Oxford Majlis, which was a student society modeled after the Cambridge Majlis...

Oxford Union

On 3 December 1964, Malcolm X addressed the Oxford Union when he partook in the 'Queen and Country' debate. He...

Oxford Martin School

The Oxford Martin School was the sity of of the Oxford Indian Institute, which provided training to Indian civil servants....

2018

British Muslims New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism

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EMHAI

Explores how a new generation are redefining what it means to be a Muslim in Britain today

A new generation of Muslims – activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals – are drawing on contemporary reformist thinking emerging from outside their parents' or grandparents' tradition and are using this to inform their activism. This positive new thinking is traced as it impacts and shapes the burgeoning field of Muslim women’s activism, the formation of religious leaders, what is to count as ‘Muslim politics’, the dynamics of de-radicalisation and what has been dubbed the ‘New Muslim Cool’ in music, fashion and culture.

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