Exploring the Diversity of Black British Muslim Heritage in LondonThis archive is a unique borne digital archive consisting of important...

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the...

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...

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

Fatima Elizabeth Cates (5 January 1865-29 October 1900) was probably the first woman to convert to Islam in Merseyside, who...

Bengali Muslim migration had reached its peak during the 1970s with the influx of people coming from the Sylhet region...

The 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...

Iqbal Geoffrey was a man of Pakistani origin who travelled to London after being accepted as a legal professional in...

Bahadur Sher was born in Northern Pakistan in 1930 and arrived in the UK in 1961 with the aspiration to...

Gladys Milton Palmer was a well known and respected British socialite and heiress who converted to the religion of Islam...

Khurshid Ahmed was a member of the Pakistan navy and in 1964, he arrived in the UK as part of...

Origins of 'Macamatheou' In 2001, the local name Macamathehou became of interest by Kenneth Cameron, John Field and John Insley...

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,...

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...

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

This was the site of the first Muslim prayer hall in the UK, which was formally established as the Liverpool...

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

The first location of the printing offices of the first Muslim periodical published in Britain, the weekly Crescent (1893-1908), the...

The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932)...

The chambers of Quilliam and Sons, headed by a convert to Islam, the lawyer and journalist, William Henry Abdullah Quilliam...

This is a Grade I listed building whose interior is built in an exuberant Orientalist style, a mix of Moorish,...

One nineteenth century couple are an early example of an intercultural Muslim marriage. They were Ali and Amy Mokaiesh who...

Mustapha Karsa (pictured circa 1900) was born in Damascus in around 1848 to a wealthy landowning family. In 1880-1, Karsa...

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,...

Ziauddin Sardar is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future...

Abdal Hakim Murad is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar. His work includes publications on Islamic theology, modernity, and...

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, born on April 14, 1872, in Bombay, British India (present-day Mumbai, India), was a renowned Islamic scholar,...

The London Central Mosque, also known as Regent's Park Mosque, was opened on November 1977 costing £6.5 million. The Mosque...

Yahya Parkinson (1874-1918), Scottish Muslim poet, essayist, and critic, was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, of Irish descent. Born John...

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,...

When they came to London many Bangladeshi women became homeworkers, joining a long tradition in the East End. Although it...

It is extremely important for the younger generation to be aware of the sacrifices made by the early settlers here...

A Research Briefing commissioned by the House of Lords to look into Islamophobia within the UK.'In the context of recent...

On the 31st of December 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a royal charter to more than two hundred City of...

Sir Henry Havelock was a British general renowned for his involvement in India, particularly his successful recapture of Cawnpore from...

Caxton Hall is a location in which many momentous events occurred, including the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the campaign...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born 2nd of October 1869, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar, Kanthiawar, India....

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

Saturday 31st January 2015 was the date of our inaugural symposium at Bishopsgate Institute in London. The day was packed...

Millions of souls Nineteen seventy onehomeless on Jessore Road under the Gray sunA million dead, the millions who canWalk toward...

The India Round Table Conferences were a series of 3 talks between 1930-1932. The purpose of these talks was to...

The National Liberal Club (NLC) was established by William Gladstone in 1882, to provide club facilities for Liberal Party campaigners. ...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), also revered as Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader), was a barrister and politician who played a pivotal role...

Originally constructed in 1868 as a set of government offices, including the India Office and later the Colonial and Home...

Imam al-Ghazali (1057-1111), honoured with the title of "Hujjatul Islam" or "Proof of Islam," was a renowned Islamic scholar and...

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...