A philanthropic body under the Poor Law Reform Act of 1832. Built workhouses, housing, schools and hospitals, including the famous...

Built by the Quilliam Family, four generations lived in this house from the 1870s to the 1950s. Includes some biographical...

8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...

This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in...

The Medina Home for Children was the first orphanage founded by Muslims in the UK, and was established in 1896....

This was the residence of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900), as listed in the 1891 Census, among the first women to...

Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900) lived at "Granada", Victoria Road, in the town of West Kirby on the western side of...

This masjid was established by Pir Maroof Hussain, a local spiritual leader who acknowledged the need for a place of...

Aisha Bewley has been – and continues to be – a world-renowned and accomplished translator of classical Islamic literature. After...

The Cambridge Central Mosque is the first purpose-built eco-mosque in Europe, completed at a cost of £24 million in March...

Muhammad Isa Waley is a British editor, translator, and researcher specializing in the literature of Muslim spirituality in Arabic, Persian,...

104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....

Abd Ar Rahman bin Muhammed ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406) is considered the Muslim father of Sociology. His contributions to...

Halimo Abdi Betal (1878-1904) is probably the first Muslim to have been buried in Bradford; she died at the young...

In 1904, the great Bradford Exhibition was held in Lister Park. It was held to inaugurate the newly-built Cartwright Hall,...

In late April 1895, a group of sixty-six Somalis arrived at the Tilbury Docks aboard the Clan Ross. They came...

The British Library is home to the India Office Records collection, an extensive collection of archives relating to the administration...

The Empire and Partition Collection and Trail were created for Everyday Muslim's Remembering Partition project to raise awareness of the...

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