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Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative

Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative (EMHAI) was established in 2013 to create an archive collection to document and preserve...

Victoria and Albert Museum

The V&A is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance.

Abdullah Quilliam's Liverpool

This is collection of places in Liverpool related to the life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the founder of Britain's first...

Academic Institutions related to research on Islam/ Muslims

This collection compiles all of the Academic Institutions, Centres, and Foundations that conduct, facilitate or fund research on Islam or...

Academic Institutions with Historical or Traditional Islamic Syllabi

This collection has been compiled to provide an insight into all of the Academic Institutes and Colleges that provide mainstream...

Fatima Cates (1865-1900), "the first woman ever converted to Islam in England"

This collection brings together some of the main places associated with the life of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900), who played...

Cultural Institutions with Islamic Objects: Museums, Art Galleries, Heritage Institutions, Archives and Libraries

This collection compiles all of the museums and art galleries, heritage institutions, archives and libraries that store Islamic historical objects...

Manchester's Arab Cotton Traders (19th-20th Centuries)

In the mid-nineteenth century, cotton traders from Beirut settled in Manchester, forming one of the very earliest communities. In 1882,...

Britain’s first Muslim mayor: Robert Reschid Stanley (1828–1911)

Robert, originally born in Cardiff with few means, grew up near “King Cotton” or Manchester, the centre of Britain’s Industrial...

Monuments & Memorials

Muslim Arts and Heritage

The exhibitions and various forms of expression that celebrate Muslim arts and heritage. This can be in gallery and museum...

Post-War Muslim Artists

In the post-war era, many artists migrated from across the Muslim world, and they studied and practised their craft and...

Spiritual Leaders and Guides

Scholars, teachers and spiritual guides that have spent their lives in the service of their communities providing a type of...

Spiritual Movements

The spiritual movements that have directly affected communities and people to better themselves and the state of the people around...

Empire and Partition

The Remembering Partition Collection is dedicated to exploring the concepts of remembrance, commemoration, and education in relation to understanding and...

Colonized Muslims on Public Display

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, imperial nations like Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, the United States and other nations...