This dissertation was submitted as part of the Tripos Examination in the Faculty of History, Cambridge University, April 2016.
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Explores how a new generation are redefining what it means to be a Muslim in Britain todayA new generation of...
What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the...
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Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World (Al Waleed Centre), University of Edinburgh
AcademiaThe HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World (Alwaleed Centre), is an...
The Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK (Islam UK Centre), based in the School of History, Archaeology...
The Centre of Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London is focused on...
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies is involved in the study of all aspects of the advanced study of Islam,...
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The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.Based in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern...
The Woolf InstituteThe Woolf Institute conducts teaching, research and outreach, on relations between followers of the Abrahamic Faiths; Jews, Christians...
The Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IMEIS) at The University of Durham, is based within the School of...
The Aziz FoundationThe Aziz Foundation is a family charitable foundation. Its flagship programme is the Masters Scholarships programme which awards...
Al-Mahdi InstituteThe Al-Mahdi Institute (AMI) assimilates traditional Twelver seminary scholarship with modern approaches to the study of Islam. The Director...
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Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College is an independent higher education institution, focused on developing and disseminating Muslim thought leadership based...
Middle East Centre Archive (MECA): Oxford University: St Anthony's CollegeThe Middle East Centre Archive was founded in 1961 by Elizabeth...
Ebrahim College was established in 2003 as a Darul Uloom style seminary appropriate for the modern world. The aim was...
CIRE is a London-based research centre dedicated to research that will inform Islamic thought, Islamic sciences and Islamic education. It...
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...
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies was founded in 1985 as a centre for the advanced study of Islam and...
In trying to identify some of the earliest Muslim students to matriculate at the University after the enactment of the...
Brothers Wasif Ali and Naseer Ali Mirza became the first racialised minority and Indian students to be enrolled at Trinity...
Somerville College houses archival materials related to the Oxford Majlis, which was a student society modeled after the Cambridge Majlis...
On 3 December 1964, Malcolm X addressed the Oxford Union when he partook in the 'Queen and Country' debate. He...
The Oxford Martin School was the sity of of the Oxford Indian Institute, which provided training to Indian civil servants....
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Middle East Centre Archive (MECA): Oxford University: St Anthony's College
Middle East Centre Archive (MECA): Oxford University: St Anthony's College
The Middle East Centre Archive was founded in 1961 by Elizabeth Monroe and Albert Hourani. The purpose of the Archive is to preserve and make available to research the papers and photographs of individuals who have lived or served in the Middle East. The Archive contains over 3,000 boxes of papers and photographs of over 700 individuals or organisations covering the period 1800 to the present day with strong holdings for the Palestine Mandate and for Oman in the 1970s. Collections include articles from, for example, government representatives, members of the armed forces, bankers, businessmen, missionaries and travellers. Read more about the history of the centre here. There are helpful guides to different collections based on country, subject/time period and map, and handlists.
The St John Philby Collection in the Islam section of the catalogue (downloadable word document of the relevant articles attached to this record), holds correspondence with individuals in 6/5/1 and also papers relating to organisations in the UK, such as 6/5/4/8 London Mosque 1926-1956 and 6/5/4/15 Woking Muslim Mission 1933-1954.
The Middle East Centre Archive also holds a substantial photographic collection of over 100,000 images covering all areas of the Middle East from the 1850s. The bulk of the collection consists of early to mid 20th Century photographs with a smaller number of 19th Century photographs including Bonfils and American Colony. Major Collections include the photographs of Freya Stark and St John Philby.
Part of the main collection has been digitised and can be viewed here. For example, the MECA Charles Butt Project - the Oman Photo Gallery, includes 300 images of Oman arranged in 12 themed photo galleries covering Agriculture, Boats, Coast, Buildings and Landscape, Camel Races, Charles Butt, Flowers and Nature, Food, Military, Oil and Technology, Parades and Displays, People and Sultan Qaboos.
To make an appointment to visit the Archive, visitors must first email the archivist at debbie.usher@sant.ox.ac.uk. Upon the first visit, readers should bring with them a letter of introduction and some photo ID (for example a passport), members of Oxford University should bring with them a valid Oxford University card.
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