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Somerville College houses archival materials related to the Oxford Majlis, which was a student society modeled after the Cambridge Majlis...
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A Muslim History of Oxford Walking Trail
Discover the wide-ranging histories of Muslims who settled across the city of Oxford from the late nineteenth century to the present.
This trail is an output of 'A Muslim History of Oxford', a community history project in partnership with the University of Oxford's Community History Hub and Everyday Muslim. The trail was developed in consultation with Uncomfortable Oxford, an Oxford-based social enterprise and tour guide organisation.
Image credit: POX0562439, Notices displayed at Central Oxford Mosque in Bath Street, 2009, Courtesy of the Oxfordshire Historical Centre.
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Jamal's Tandoori Restaurant has been a significant place of networking for Muslims across the city. During the 1950s and 1960s,...
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Al Shami restaurant was the site of Oxford's first halal butchers, and was established in the 1960s. Prior to its...
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Founded in 1921, City of Oxford Motor Services Limited was an important site of employment in the 1950s and 1960s...
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Founded in 1678, the Ashmolean Museum features an Islamic and Middle East Gallery which exhibits a selection of artifacts made...
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On 3 December 1964, Malcolm X addressed the Oxford Union when he partook in the 'Queen and Country' debate. He...
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In trying to identify some of the earliest Muslim students to matriculate at the University after the enactment of the...
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Brothers Wasif Ali and Naseer Ali Mirza became the first racialised minority and Indian students to be enrolled at Trinity...
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The Oxford Martin School was the sity of of the Oxford Indian Institute, which provided training to Indian civil servants....
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Next to the Pitt Rivers Museum is the sire of current Oxford Islamic Society meeting space. There is a rich...
1950 - 1968
Jamal’s Tandoori Restaurant
Jamal's Tandoori Restaurant has been a significant place of networking for Muslims across the city. During the 1950s and 1960s, the building's basement was home to the city's first place of worship. Archival evidence has demonstrated that Muslim students - who were part of the university society, the Oxford Union - used to attend Jummah prayers here before the Bath Street Mosque was established.
Bath Street Mosque, in St Clements, was the first makeshift mosque in Oxford, established in 1968. Until Oxford Central Mosque on Manzil Way was opened in 2003, this was the primary site of worship for Muslims in the city. Some interviewees remembered how a bus would travel through the city to collect children for Islamic education classes after school in Bath Street mosque.
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JMOX SOC 18, OU Islamic Union term card, 6 May 1968, Islamic Society, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library,University of Oxford, Oxford.
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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