Mental Health Issues

Attendees will receive hard copies of the mental health toolkit for Imams and scholars - join our next webinar. Details will be posted soon. pic.twitter.com/E88owh025Y

— The British Board of Scholars & Imams (BBSI) (@BBSIOnline) February 23, 2021

Cornwall's Trade Links with Egypt and Iran

Just come across this, published in November 2020 (links into the previous post too) - Caitlin Green, Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

"The aim of the following piece is simply to share some interesting accounts of the tin-trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly one written in Arabic and another in Persian. Taken together, these two accounts suggest that tin from southwestern England (i.e. Cornwall and Devon) was exported via southern France to both Egypt and ultimately Iran in this period, with it being used by potters in the latter area to make tin-opacified ceramic glazes." This one is particularly interesting to me as I have some Cornish family connections ...

Medieval England and 'Muhammad'

Caitlin Green, Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England "The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, Macamathehou, that involves a version of the Arabic name Muhammad (Middle English Makomet/Macamethe, Old French Mahomet)."

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

#takethevaccine

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— Adil Ray OBE 💙 (@adilray) February 19, 2021

Heathrow: Appalling Conditions for Drivers

BBC News, Heathrow Airport: Muslim minicab drivers forced to pray in bus stop

"Muslim minicab drivers working at Heathrow Airport have described feeling "humiliated" after being forced to pray in a bus stop car park.

Vaccinations

⁦@EnfieldCouncil⁩ community Covid vaccine webinar. Qari Asim from MINAB informs us that the Covid vaccine is completely halal & having a vaccine in Ramadan does NOT break your fast “If anyone saves one life, it is like saving the whole of humanity” (Quran) #getthejab pic.twitter.com/VM6vgQNUwx

— Farzana Hussain (@fhussain73) February 17, 2021

Bradford Central Mosque to become a Covid-19 vaccination centre https://t.co/vMjPuzzsD5

— Telegraph & Argus (@Bradford_TandA) February 17, 2021

Bradford Central Mosque has become the latest mosque to open its doors to become a community COVID-19 vaccination centre.

It follows the likes of other mosques in the region, such as the Jamia Ghausia Centre in Sheffield and Keighley Mosque.https://t.co/6FVTfG8tZL

— Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) February 17, 2021