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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Somerville College
Somerville College houses archival materials related to the Oxford Majlis, which was a student society modeled after the Cambridge Majlis and the Oxford Union. It was a broadly left-wing and anti-imperialist forum for students who came from South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The society hosted debates and social events, with notable speakers including Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Members include Liaquat Ali Khan, who became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan and was heavily involved with the Indian independence movement.
Kamal Hossain, who drafted the first constitution for Bangladesh, reflected on the history of the Majlis in a magazine published in 1986. In it, he highlighted the difficulty with which leaders of independence movements (including him) negotiated their experiences as students at Oxford with the university’s position as an imperial centre. Kamal suggested that these leaders would often discuss their time in Oxford with ambivalence. This poses interesting questions about the extent to which networking and connection-making affected the politicisation of these individuals.
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See: Anuj Mishra, 'Can you revive something that’s long dead?: the Oxford Majlis', Cherwell (1st December 2023). Also see: 'The Majlis in the Mid-Fifties', by Kamal Hossain.
Aleena Din - Aleena is a historian of gender, class and race in modern Britain. Her DPhil research, which was completed at Balliol College and the Faculty of History in 2022, focuses on the migration, settlement and labour experiences of working-class British-Pakistani women who settled in Middlesbrough and Oldham between 1962 and 2002. Aleena is the co-investigator of the community history project 'A Muslim History of Oxford', in collaboration with the national heritage organisation 'Everyday Muslim'. In addition, she is a postdoctoral research associate for the digital humanities project, 'Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830 to the Present' at the University of Bristol (2025).
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