Cambridge's Muslim Heritage

Cambridge Independent, Shahida Rahman interview: 'My mother may have been the first Bengali woman in Cambridge'

"Writer Shahida Rahman discusses the small but significant Bangladeshi community in Cambridge, in a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence." There's a great website for Cambridge Muslim Heritage here

Eid @ Cambridge

Eid sermon at the Cambridge Mosque:

Cambridge Mosque

Guardian, Inside Cambridge’s new £23m mosque: a forest runs through it  "The new £23m mosque in Mill Road, Cambridge, which will open in the next few weeks, is the most determined attempt yet to build in a way that is of its own place and time. It’s the brainchild of Timothy Winter, also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, a convert to Islam who teaches at the University of Cambridge and is dean of the Cambridge Muslim College. The building, which has room for 1,000 worshippers, will serve the city’s Muslim population in general, as well as Winter’s students. " The project has used social media to publicise its building/funding. Details are here: Cambridge Mosque Project (Twitter). Cambridge Mosque Information . Cambridge Mosque Trust (website).

Cambridge Mosque

Cambridge News, Take a look inside Cambridge's oldest mosque before it opens to the public, 11 Feb 2018 "Abu Bakr Masjid mosque in Mawson Road, off Mill Road will open its door to all faiths and communities on February 18 as part of a national Visit My Mosque Day organised by the Muslim Council of Great Britain."

Cambridge Mosque Development

"Tim Winter, also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, chairman of Cambridge Mosque Trust, told the News the final cost is likely to be higher than £15 million."

'How to get better Muslim preachers'

Tehmina Kazi, Comment is free, Guardian., How to get better Muslim preachers, 6 Dec 2010 discusses Facebook, Young Imam, Malaysia, and much more. "The scarcity of universal qualifications for Muslim religious leaders is part of the problem."

Timothy Winter profile

The Independent, Timothy Winter: Britain's most influential Muslim - and it was all down to a peach, 20 Aug 2010 "The hitherto unnoticed Mr Winter, who has an office in Cambridge University's Divinity Faculty, where he is the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies, has been listed ahead of the presidents of Iran and Egypt, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, and the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Mahmoud Abbas. "Strange bedfellows," he concedes."

The 2010 listing can be found here to download: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre

"Contextualising Islam in Britain" [comments]

Asim Siddiqui, Asian News, An Islam at home in Britain, October 21, 2009 "This month saw the launch of a report authored by a theologically diverse group of leading British Muslims entitled "Contextualising Islam in Britain".

"The scholars and practitioners who contributed to the report, published by Cambridge University, sought to answer a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to live faithfully as a Muslim in Britain today?"

This report was previously blogged here.

Cambridge Muslim College

BBC News, Muslim integration college opens, 15 Oct 09 "A new college in Cambridge has begun offering courses on how to integrate Islam into British society.

"The Cambridge Muslim College has just a handful of students, each of whom have ambitions to become a religious leader at a mosque or within the community."

More info: Cambridge Muslim College