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 Muslims, in the United Kingdom and the wider world. Each record includes information on open access resources and events, study programmes, research outputs and literature on Muslims in Britain. Where relevant, we have also linked information for scholarships, funding and prizes.

Oxford Martin School

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The Oxford Martin School was the sity of of the Oxford Indian Institute, which provided training to Indian civil servants. It was the vision of Monier Monier-Williams, the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the university, who envisioned Oxford as focal point of political training and education for Indian students who would uphold imperial governance in India. Williams raised over £20,000 to fund the building, and donators included Queen Victoria. The building took three years to complete and was opened 1896 by Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India. The institute had lecture rooms, accommodation and a library.

Between 1878 and 1885 there were 255 candidates selected by the British Government for the Indian Civil Service and 161 attended Oxford. The spread of Indian nationalism, however, became a cause for concern. After the First World War, and the assassination of the politician Sir Curzon Wylie by Indian student Madan Lal Dhingra in London, the government commissioned an inquiry to investigate the presence of Indian students in Britain. The report stated there were tensions between British and Indian students at Oxford. In turn, several colleges expelled Indian students. In 1915, for example, Balliol College reduced the number of Indian students that it admitted.

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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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Academic Institutions related to research on Islam/ Muslims

Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World (Al Waleed Centre), University of Edinburgh

Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK (Islam UK Centre), Cardiff University

Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS University

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge

The Aziz Foundation

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford

Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Somerville College