We were delighted to kick start Mufti Ateeq Bastawi’s 2018 tour of the UK on 23 November 2018. Mufti Bastawi is the academic secretary of Fiqh Academy and senior post graduate fiqh supervisor at Nawatul Ulama. He was introduced by our very own, Mufti Barakatullah, and delivered a talk on Shariah in Plural Societies in the Muslim…
We are pleased to announce that Professor Timothy Winter (also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad) became the first Professorial Chair in a British Muslim higher education institution. He delivered a distinguished lecture entitled: How Islamic is ‘Islamic Studies’? The Troubled History of an Academic Discipline on Monday 19 November 2018 at Senate House, University…
A discussion of the Sufi retreat as a site to construct Muslim religious ‘tradition’ and ‘authority’ within secular modernity. Presentation of an academic paper followed by Q & A and discussion Lecture by Walaa Quisay (University of Oxford)
Dr Asim Islam from the Cambridge Muslim College, delivered a lecture on Quantum Theory and the Mind. This lecture for non-specialists discussed the revolution in fundamental quantum physics and its finding that the existence of mind is woven into the fabric of reality. CIRE is a London-based research centre dedicated to research that will inform…
Talk followed by Q&A and discussion Prof. Mehmet Gormez is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığıfrom November 2010 to 31 July 2017, commonly known as Diyanet) and as such legally the highest level Islamic cleric in Turkey and the Turkey Republic of Nothern Cyprus.
Exploring Muslim Views on God and Abstract Objects Presentation of an academic paper followed by Q & A and discussion
