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Public Seminar
Series 2020
Doctoral
Students
Jameel Research
Programme
2019-2020
@IslamUKCentre
facebook.com/IslamUKCentre
The Centre for Public Seminar Series 2020
the Study of
Wednesday 5th February 5pm Wednesday 19th February 5pm
Islam in the UK Dr Usaama al-Azami Dr Maryyum Mehmood
The Centre for the Study of John Percival Building, Colum John Percival Building, Colum
Islam in the UK was opened Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EG Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EG
in September 2005 by Yusuf Room: 5.24 Room: 5.24
Islam, formerly musician Cat ‘The Arab Revolutions and ‘Through the Target’s Lens:
Stevens in front of 400 guests. Western Muslims: Tracing a Lived Realities of Antisemitism
Islam is the second largest Transnational Story of a Crisis and Islamophobia’
religion in Britain and, indeed, the of Religious Authority’
world. There are 46,000 Muslims Maryyum
in Wales, about half of whom live Dr Usaama Mehmood
in Cardiff itself (Census 2011). al-Azami is a is a Fellow
Departmental and Centre
Lecturer in Facilitator at
Contemporary The Cadbury
Islamic Studies Centre for the
at the University Public Understanding of Religion,
of Oxford. He completed his BA University of Birmingham. She is
in Arabic and Islamic studies at also a Research Associate at St
Oxford, his seminary studies at Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford.
Cardiff University is now a leading the Al-Salam Institute, and his In 2018, Maryyum completed an
institution for scholarly teaching MA and PhD on modern Islamic ESRC-funded PhD-studentship at
about Islam and Muslims in political thought at Princeton the Department of War Studies,
contemporary Britain. The Centre University. His primary research King’s College London. Her
for the Study of Islam in the UK interests lie in modern Islamic thesis explores Antisemitism
(Islam-UK Centre) is based within thought, both in Muslim- and Islamophobia, by focusing
the School of History, Archaeology majority lands and the West. on responses to religious
and Religion, which has a wealth His first book, Islam and the stigmatization against Muslims in
of teaching expertise and a lively Arab Revolutions: Democracy, contemporary England and Jews
programme of research activity. Autocracy and the Ulama in in Weimar Germany, respectively.
Within the school’s degree Modernity, is out in 2020.
programmes there are a range Email address:
of possibilities for studying Islam Email address: m.mehmood.1@bham.ac.uk
and classical Arabic. usaama.al-azami@orinst.ox.ac.uk Chair: Laura Jones
The Centre has a strong and Chair: Hamzah Zahid
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positive relationship with the CLICK HERE TO BOOK
local Muslim communities.
Local Muslims form part of the
Centre’s advisory committee,
and we are proud of this
partnership. We envisage the
Centre as an accessible, vibrant,
and inclusive hub of learning
about Islam in Cardiff, South
Wales and the UK for Muslims
and non-Muslims alike.
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Wednesday 4th March 5pm Wednesday 18th March 5pm Wednesday 22nd April 6.15pm
Prof. Mathew Guest Prof. Masooda Bano Jason Mohammad
John Percival Building, Colum John Percival Building, Colum Glamorgan Building, King
Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EG Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EG Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff,
Room: 5.24 Room: 5.24 Committee Rooms 1 & 2
‘Anxiety and Stigma in the ‘Making Islam Relevant: The ‘From Cardiff to the
Lives of Muslim Students: Role of New Islamic Scholarly World Cup Final.’
How the “Radicalisation” Networks in the West’
Narrative Shapes Higher Jason
Education in Britain’ Professor Mohammad
Masooda Bano was born
Professor is Professor of and raised
Mathew Guest Development in a Muslim
is Professor Studies at household
in the the Oxford in Cardiff.
Sociology of Department of International Growing up, he attended Glyn
Religion in the Development, University of Derw High School and later
Department Oxford. Professor Bano carries moved to study Politics and
of Theology and Religion at out comparative fieldwork across Welsh at Swansea University. He
Durham University, where Muslim societies and builds then attended Cardiff University
he has taught since 2004. large-scale studies combining for a postgraduate diploma in
His research focuses on how ethnographic and survey data. She broadcast journalism
universities influence the status is currently directing a five-year Jason is a well-known BBC
and expression of religious major research project: Changing Television and Radio presenter
identities, including the impact Structures of Islamic Authority who currently hosts Final Score
of the university experience and Consequences for Social on BBC One as well as shows on
on Christian and Muslim Change – A Transnational Review. BBC Radio 2 and BBC Wales.
students, and the changing She is the author of Female
role of university chaplains. He Islamic Education Movements: This seminar is given in
is the co-author of Christianity The Re-democratisation of partnership with the Learned
and the University Experience: Islamic Knowledge (2017) and Society of Wales.
Understanding Student Faith The Rational Believer: Choices Chair: Prof. Justin Lewis
(2013) and of Islam on Campus: and Decisions in the Madrasas
CLICK HERE TO BOOK
Contested Identities and the of Pakistan (2012) and she has
Cultures of Higher Education in edited Modern Islamic Authority
Britain (2020). and Social Change, Vols. 1 & 2
(2018); and co-edited Shaping
Email address:
Global Islamic Discourses: The
m.j.guest@durham.ac.uk
Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina, and
Chair: Rev. David Sheen al-Mustafa (2015); and Women,
CLICK HERE TO BOOK Leadership and Mosques:
Changes in Contemporary Islamic
Authority (2012).
Email address:
masooda.bano@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Dr Mansur Ali addressing the
Chair: Dr Riyaz Timol audience at the Muslim Council
of Wales 20 years of devolution
CLICK HERE TO BOOK dinner.
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Islam-UK Centre Doctoral Students
during online research of Sufi mainstream media, with news
expression on social media. coverage and specific radio and
Alongside my studies, I serve TV programmes broadcast during
as an executive committee the month; in the commercial
member of the Muslims in Britain sector, with supermarkets
Research Network (MBRN). offering Ramadan promotions;
We hold annual conferences and in politics, with politicians
and bring together academics, delivering Ramadan greetings.
students, professionals, Despite this, academic literature
researchers, journalists and on Ramadan in the UK is sparse,
practitioners to encourage and thus the reason for this study.
Ayesha Khan
promote the study of Muslims I will explore the significance
PhD topic: and Islam in Britain.
Exploring contemporary Sufism and experience of Ramadan
amongst young British Muslims. Email address: for British Muslims primarily by
khana43@cardiff.ac.uk analysing Ramadan diaries of
Generously funded by the research participants. I also
Jameel Scholarship Programme. hope to undertake ethnographic
Project summary: observation of Ramadan
The interaction between events and activities to capture
transnational Sufism and the communal aspects of the month.
sociological environment in The study aims to shed light not
Britain has led to new forms only on how Muslims observe
of Sufi expression. Through a and practice the month, but how
qualitative approach, my study the month is ‘observed’ by wider
seeks to explore contemporary society through, for example,
forms of Sufi expression the media and initiatives where
amongst young British Muslims. Muslims reach out to non-
Laura Jones Muslims during Ramadan.
This will contribute towards
understanding the diversity PhD topic: Email address:
of religious practice and what Observing Ramadan JonesLA24@cardiff.ac.uk
young Muslims interpret as in Britain.
Sufism. Through my study I ask: Generously funded by the
What are the currents forms of Jameel Scholarship Programme.
Sufi practice amongst young
Project summary:
British Muslims? What is the
My research aims to explore
role of social media in
British Muslim experiences of
contemporary religious
fasting and observing the holy
expression? What does this new month of Ramadan.
Sufi phenomenon tell us about
Islam in contemporary Britain? Fasting in Ramadan is one of
the five pillars of Islam and
Now in the final year of my something that is maintained
doctoral study, I am writing up by a diverse range of Muslims, Laiqah Osman
my findings whilst simultaneously even those who may be PhD topic:
analysing the data I collected considered ‘less practising’ in Muslim Women in Britain and
via participant observation in other respects. It is an occasion the authority of online Islamic
Sufi-affiliated organisations and which has gained attention in the content.
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Generously funded by the as well as my own background
Jameel Scholarship Programme. as the daughter of a convert
mother. Through my research
Project summary:
I am hoping to contribute to a
Muslim women in Britain use,
better understanding of the
interact and engage with different
varying identities and unique
sources of Islamic authority.
experiences of the current
Since the advent of Islam on the
generation of Muslims in Britain
internet, media sources have
and ultimately the heterogeneity
become increasingly popular in
of Muslim communities.
facilitating this interaction. This
can include, fatwa websites, Fatou Sambe I am currently in the second year
Islamic scholars’ profiles on PhD topic: of my PhD, during which I will be
social media, Islamic Q&A TV Converts to Islam and the next conducting my fieldwork.
shows and the automation of generation of British Muslims.
Email address:
Islamic legal literature. This Generously funded by the SambeFB@cardiff.ac.uk
research suggests that this Jameel Scholarship Programme.
development has significantly
transformed women’s role and Project summary:
subsequently, the function of My research project explores
authority in this engagement. the post-conversion experiences
of converts in Britain and
By studying women’s use the particular intersection of
of the internet for religious converts having children as well
knowledge, we will have a greater as the experiences of (adult)
understanding of the impact that children of converts. I further
these sources have on their lived investigate the unexplored area
religious experiences. It will also of convert support groups and
be able to explore the role of their role in the lives of converts
individual agency in their religious and convert children.
exploration, shifting the narrative
beyond the traditional male I aim to explore what it means
guardians of knowledge. to become a Muslim and raise
(Muslim) children. How do
This study will use a combination converts navigate their new
of traditional social science lives, community spaces and
methods (semi-structured raising children, and how do
interviews) and internet children of converts navigate
research (online ethnography) their mixed background and
to understand how, and in what extended Muslim and non –
context, Muslim women use Muslim families? I also consider
these sources to guide and how historical, socio-political
direct their religious practice. factors and contexts in Britain
At present, Laiqah is preparing shape their experiences.
to commence fieldwork in the My interest in this topic was Prof. Sophie Gilliat-Ray’s
year 2020. developed during previous keynote lecture at the Sigmund
Email address: research with Scottish and Freud University in Vienna in
November 2019, as recorded
OsmanL2@cardiff.ac.uk German convert women for my by a graphic artist.
undergraduate dissertation
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MA in Islam in
Contemporary Britain
Scholarship on Islam and that shape contemporary volunteering projects during
Muslims in Britain is now an Muslim communities. their studies.
established and rapidly growing We look at how Muslims have Full scholarships through our
field. There is an urgent need to engaged with local and national Jameel programme are available.
continue to develop new scholars government in relation to matters Follow our communications
from a range of backgrounds such as education, social policy, channels, such as our website,
and experiences who can and chaplaincy, as well as the for application information in the
critically evaluate emerging growth of Muslim community new year.
debates and appreciate the rich infrastructures such as mosques
diversity within British Muslim For more information,
and charities. During the course please contact:
communities. of the MA, students receive a Postgraduate Administrator:
This interdisciplinary thorough grounding in social
programme, drawing upon the science research methods Email:
fields of history, sociology, and and theories and acquire a SHARE-PG@cardiff.ac.uk
religious studies, examines the set of transferable skills that Tel: +44 (0)29 2987 0903
history and settlement of Muslims will equip them for a range of
in Britain and the dynamics careers. Students can undertake
Jameel Scholars 2019-20
Masters Students
Through these programs I was
introduced to some of the key
debates in the field of British
Muslim studies; however, this
Sami Bryant
was often through a securitised
I am grateful for the Islam UK
lens. This is in stark contrast
Centre’s valuable events –
to the depth and breadth of
including the Public Seminar
the research carried out at the
Series – that I was able to
centre, which reflects a more
Samuel Bartlett attend as an undergraduate
nuanced understanding of
Having been aware of the Islam- here at Cardiff (BA History) and
Britain’s Muslim communities.
UK centre’s activities for some before. A lecture the Centre
I hope I can contribute to the
time now, I was thrilled to have hosted in 2013 by Fazlun Khalid
Centre’s work through my MA
been accepted onto the MA (Founder of IFEES/EcoIslam)
dissertation, which will analyse
programme. Previously I studied introduced me to Islamic
the experiences of Muslim
a BA in War Studies at King’s Environmentalism, an important
teachers engaged in teaching
College London and an MA in part of my life personally,
the Islamic tradition to primary
Middle Eastern Studies at spiritually, and now – thanks
school children.
Lund University. to the opportunity provided
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by the Jameel scholarship
– intellectually. I value the
Centre Development Officer
Mark Bryant
Centre’s commitment to local
communities and appreciate
Contacts BryantMW@cardiff.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)7738 932376
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 0121
its academic record and
Islam-UK Centre,
reputation. I hope the MA’s School of History, Archaeology
focus on interdisciplinarity and and Religion, John Percival
social science methodologies Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff,
will help me to produce CF10 3EU, UK
research useful for both Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 0121
scholars and activists. Email: islam-uk@cardiff.ac.uk
Director Mark Bryant provides essential
Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray administrative and technical
Gilliat-RayS@cardiff.ac.uk support for the Centre. This
Tel: +44 (0)29 2251 0830 includes managing the database
and website and promoting the
Centre’s work via social media.
He is a member of the Centre’s
Hamzah Zahid Advisory Board and is working on
I studied Economics at SOAS, the various projects within the
University of London, writing Jameel Research Programme.
on Islamic Finance and Mark completed the MA ‘Islam
researching Umar bin Abdul in Britain’ in 2009, and he
Aziz’s implementation of Zakat was employed as a research
Professor Gilliat-Ray is the assistant for the ‘Islamic
at the prominent think-tank,
founding Director of the Centre. Gardens’ project funded by
Institute of Economic Affairs.
She is currently the Chair of the Botanic Gardens Conservation
After graduating, I joined the
BSA Sociology of Religion Study International (BGCI) in 2010.
Civil Service Fast Stream as an
economist working in different Group and is a member of the
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
policy areas. I supported 2021 REF assessment panel for
Maulana Dr Mansur Ali
fellow Muslims in the Civil Theology and Religious Studies.
alimm1@cardiff.ac.uk
She has authored numerous
Service through events around Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 6297
books and peer-review journal
Ramadan, Hajj and Eid, which
articles about Islam and Muslims
featured ministers and senior
in Britain, and she was Chair of
civil servants, and engaged with the Muslims in Britain Research
departmental HR policy. My Network between 2014-2017.
participation in the Young Muslim Over the course of her career,
Leadership Programme at the she has been associated with
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies successful research grants
and interfaith training at Lambeth worth over £4.8m. In 2019, she
Dr Mansur Ali studied classical
Palace solidified my interest was elected as a Fellow of the
Islamic studies and Arabic
in activism and leadership. As Learned Society of Wales. Prof.
at Darul Uloom Bury, UK and
a result, I am taking a career Gilliat-Ray was appointed an
Al-Azhar University Cairo,
break to study this Master’s. My OBE in the New Year Honours list
Egypt. He then completed his
research interests are in Zakat, in 2020.
postgraduate studies in Middle
construction of religious authority, Eastern Studies (Hadith studies)
‘itikaf, and psychospiritual at the University of Manchester
explanations of genocide. researching for a PhD
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Centre Contacts
dissertation on the ‘Importance journalist in Ottawa, Canada. Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 5634
of the Isnad in Al-Tirmidhi’s Dr Munnik is Publications and Abdul-Azim
Sunan’. He is interested in Communications Officer for Ahmed is
Hadith studies as well as the Sociology of Religion Study currently
applied Islamic theology and Group of the British Sociological involved in
bioethics. He has authored a Association, and he brought that researching
number of books and academic group’s annual conference to British
journal articles on the subject Cardiff in the summer of 2019. mosques and Muslim
of Hadith, chaplaincy, drug congregation, and the role of
addiction and Islamic theology, Research Associate
religion in civil society. His recent
and practical theology. Currently Dr Matthew Vince
publications include works on the
he is working on a research vincem@cardiff.ac.uk
conceptualisation of mosques,
project entitled ‘Our bodies Tel: +44 (0)2920688788
and the denominational diversity
belong to God: The human Dr Matthew amongst Muslims in the UK.
transplantation act (Wales) Vince was
2013 and Cardiff Muslims’ awarded his Research Associate
response to it’. In addition to his PhD at the Dr Riyaz Timol
post at the university, he is also Islam-UK Timolr1@cardiff.ac.uk
a khatib at Darul Isra Mosque, Centre in Tel: +44 (0) 29 2087 4884
Cardiff, UK. In 2015, he was the November
Dr Riyaz Timol’s
recipient of the British Imams 2018. His doctoral thesis
PhD on the
and Scholars Award (BISCA). explored the experiences and
British branch of
identities of Muslims working
the transnational
Lecturer in Social Science as Religious Education (RE)
Islamic
Research Methods teachers in secondary state
movement
Dr Michael Munnik schools across the UK, uncovering
Tablighi Jama’at
MunnikM@cardiff.ac.uk ways that Muslim professionals
was shortlisted for the 2018 BRAIS
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 5646 are engaging their faith within
– De Gruyter Prize in the Study
Dr Michael ‘secular’ working environments.
of Islam and the Muslim World.
Munnik His research interests surround
He is the Principal Investigator of
teaches aspects of Muslims and
a major three-year project called
social education, particularly RE, and
‘Understanding British Imams’
theory and the study of Islam and Muslims
and teaches the MA module
qualitative from sociological perspectives,
‘History and Development of
research notably that of ‘lived religion’. He is
Muslim Communities in Britain’.
currently leading a research and
methods to postgraduate His disciplinary approach is within
curriculum development project,
students at the Centre. He the sociology of religion and
titled ‘MOOC2RE’, that aims to
also teaches on religion and his research interests include
support RE practitioners to teach
the news and digital religion ethnographic methodology,
about Muslims in Britain from the
with undergraduates at Cardiff intergenerational transmission of
perspective of their everyday lives.
University. His expertise was Islam in Britain and the relationship
In 2019, Matt joined TRS-UK as
developed during his doctoral of Islam with modernity.
a Schools Liaison Officer, working
research at the University of
to build relationships between
Edinburgh, supported by the Research Associate
Theology and Religious Studies
Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Maulana Dr Haroon Sidat
departments and their local schools.
Islam in the Contemporary World, Sidathe@cardiff.ac.uk
and his interest in news media Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 5650
Research Associate
and journalistic practice comes Dr Haroon Sidat completed his
Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed
from his prior professional traditional Islamic Studies at a
AhmedMA1@cardiff.ac.uk
experience as a broadcast
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Dar al Uloom, research conducted in an area of completed his PhD thesis
or seminary, long-standing Muslim settlement Sectarian Influences within Islam
in Blackburn. in Greater Manchester. Instead, in Britain which was published
He has a poor employment opportunities (for as a Community Religions
background Muslim men and women) and the Monograph. He has researched
in Economics, receipt of state welfare payments Islam in Britain since that time,
Accounting emerged as more significant publishing several books that
and Finance, and a PGCE in explanations for high levels of explore British manifestations of
Education. He completed his PhD economic inactivity. Sufism. He is an early member of
in 2019 looking at the formation In 2019, I have worked as a the Muslims in Britain Research
and training of imams and British freelance research consultant Network and chaired the body
Muslim religious leadership on policy-based projects; this from 2006 to 2009, and he
(ulama). He is interested in includes work with CASCADE remains a lifetime member of the
Islamic law and theology. He is Research Centre at Cardiff committee. He is an early friend
also interested in the sociology University, and Policy Intelligence of the Islam-UK Centre, acting
of religious professionals, UK. I teach on an undergraduate as its first external examiner for
tradition, authority and religious Sociology module, ‘Making the MA programme (2005-8).
embodiment. Currently, he Sense of Society’, at Manchester His work remains focused on the
is working on a unique and Metropolitan University. application of religious knowledge
ground-breaking project called to real life affairs and he is a
Through my honorary research
‘Understanding British Imams’ passionate believer in advocacy.
fellowship at the UK-Islam Centre,
which is a three-year study that Consequently, he has been
I continue to work on publications
provides detailed research on involved in a number of projects
from my thesis. I remain in close
the roles imams play in modern bridging academia to government,
touch with colleagues from the
Britain. He also serves as an law, architects, education and
Centre, this includes developing
imam and khatib. media. His work on the theory
new research proposals. I was
really pleased to graduate with and method in the study of
Honorary Research Fellow religion, The Study of Religion,
Matt this summer, and to cheer
Asma Khan went to second edition in 2014,
Haroon on to viva success too!
AsmaKhan@cardiff.ac.uk and he remains committed to
I successfully Honorary Visiting Professor advancing the subject discipline
defended my Professor Ron Geaves through promoting the study of
PhD thesis GeavesR@cardiff.ac.uk lived religions. However, in 2010
in December he turned his attention to history,
Professor Ron publishing the ground-breaking
2018. My
Geaves has Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life
project was
held a Chair and Times of Abdullah Quilliam
entitled
in Religious followed by Islam and Britain:
‘Beliefs, Choices and Constraints:
Studies at Muslim Mission in an Age of
Understanding and Explaining
the University Empire and Victorian Muslim:
the Economic Inactivity of British
Muslim Women’. of Chester Abdullah Quilliam and Islam
(2001-2007) and a Chair in the in the West with Jamie Gilham,
I found that high levels of religious Comparative Study of Religion at both published in 2017.
practice do not have a significant Liverpool Hope University (2007-
association with the economic 2013). He joined the Community He has delivered papers at
inactivity of British Muslim women. Religions Project at the University over one hundred conferences,
Evidence for this conclusion was of Leeds in 1988 where he began including invitations to Russia,
found in statistical analysis of a to work on the transmigration USA, Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
national dataset (EMBES 2010) of South Asian religions to Finland, Germany, Switzerland,
and confirmed in qualitative Britain, especially Islam. He Mauritius and India.
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Jameel Research Programme
MOOC 2 RE terrorism measures become increasingly conflated
The MOOC2RE project aims to support Religious with integration issues, have foregrounded the
Education (RE) in schools through the development imam as a figure that may guide his flock in either
of a fully resourced Key Stage 3 scheme of work constructive or destructive ways. Yet, somewhat
investigating Muslims in Britain. Based on the paradoxically, the British imam has only rarely been
Islam-UK Centre’s hugely successful Muslims in the subject of in-depth ethnographic research.
Britain Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), This exciting 3-year project aims to fill this gap by
we aim to embed sociological perspectives on conducting the most detailed and rigorous study
religion in the RE classroom by using cutting-edge ever undertaken of British imams thus making a
sociological research and academic scholarship substantial contribution to debates about Muslim
in teaching resources to draw attention to the religious leadership in the West.
lived experiences of Muslims living across Britain.
These resources feature interviews, photographs Improving Understanding of Mental Health
and accounts from Muslims on Islam, their in British Muslim Communities
identities as Muslims, and contemporary issues, Mental health issues affect British Muslims more
and will be freely available to download and edit. than any other faith community. There is evidence
Alongside the resources, we want to help RE that mainstream health care practitioners and
teachers by designing an accompanying accessible service providers lack an adequate understanding
Professional Learning course. The project of cultural sensitivities surrounding mental health
began in February 2019. If you are interested in in British Muslim communities, which can lead
hearing more about this project, please contact to inappropriate or ineffective interventions.
Dr Matthew Vince: vincem@cardiff.ac.uk. Consequently, there is a pressing need to provide
accessible training for professionals involved in
Understanding British Imams the pastoral care of British Muslims (chaplains,
Imams are the largest group of Muslim religious health care workers, psychiatrists, counsellors,
professionals in Britain, who work principally within social workers etc.) in an accessible format. This
mosques leading prayers, delivering sermons project involves the development of a short, freely
and providing guidance to their congregations. accessible online course examining issues of
However, there is growing evidence to suggest mental health among British Muslims. It will build
that this role is being expanded to encompass upon our successful collaboration with MIND (the
pastoral care, chaplaincy, charity work or wider UKs largest mental health charity) in April 2018,
community projects such as inter-faith activity or and our relationship with Consultant Psychiatrist,
civic events. Further, the pressures of a post-9/11 Dr Asim Yusuf, who is also a classically trained
and 7/7 socio-political climate, in which counter- British Islamic scholar.
Dr Haroon Sidat attending a meeting with The British Dr Michael Munnik providing training on reporting Islam
Board of Scholars & Imams (BBSI) in London where they for the National Union of Journalists – London Branch.
introduced their vision, aims and objectives. There were This event was led by the Religion Media Centre. Photo
people from all across the UK present. courtesy of Hazel Dunlop.
10The Learned Society of Wales
The Learned Society of Wales is the national Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru yw academi
academy for arts and sciences. genedlaethol Cymru ar gyfer y celfyddydau
a’r gwyddorau
Our Fellowship brings together experts from across
all academic fields and beyond. We use this Daw ein Cymrodoriaeth ag arbenigwyr at ei gilydd
collective knowledge to promote research, inspire o bob maes academaidd a thu hwnt. Defnyddiwn
learning, and provide independent policy advice. yr wybodaeth gyfunol hon i hyrwyddo ymchwil,
ysbrydoli dysg a darparu cyngor polisi annibynnol.
To learn more about our work see:
learnedsociety.wales/ Darllenwch fwy am ein gwaith:
cymdeithasddysgedig.cymru/
The Learned Society of Wales is our partner host for
the public seminar on 22 April 2020.
Members of the Islam-UK Centre
Management Board
Professor James Hegarty Chair Dr Richard Gale Saleem Kidwai OBE
of the Management Board and Lecturer in Human Geography Secretary General of the Muslim
Head of the School of History, School of Geography and Council of Wales
Archaeology and Religion Planning, Cardiff University Dr Michael Munnik
Ali Abdi Prof Sophie Gilliat-Ray Lecturer in Social Science
Partnerships and Facilities Director Research Methods and Theories
Manager, Community Gateway, Dr Meraj Hasan Nathan Roberts
Cardiff University. Association of Muslim Head of Education Support,
Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed Professionals, Cardiff Student Experience and
Research Associate Eleanor Hewett Education Support, Cardiff
Dr Mansur Ali Senior Development Manager, University
Lecturer in Islamic Studies Development and Alumni Dr Riyaz Timol
Mark Bryant Relations, Cardiff University Research Associate
Development Officer Gillian James Dr David Wyatt
Laura Davies Head of Ethnic Minority and Community Engagement,
Head of Communications, Traveller Achievement Service, School of History, Archaeology
College of Arts, Humanities Cardiff Council and Religion
and Social Sciences, Cardiff Samina Khan Hamzah Zahid
University Community Liaison and MA Student, Cardiff University
Jennifer Dunne / Ruth Coombs Development Manager, as the student representative
Project, Stakeholder and Cardiff and Vale College
Intelligence Manager, Equality
and Human Rights Commission
for Wales
11All seminars will be
held at 5pm in the
John Percival Building, Diary of Public Seminars 2020
Colum Drive, Cardiff,
CF10 3EU, Room: 5.24, Wednesday 5th February 5pm
except the seminar on Dr Usaama al-Azami
Wednesday 22nd April ‘The Arab Revolutions and Western Muslims: Tracing a Transnational
(Jason Mohammad) Story of a Crisis of Religious Authority’
which will be held in
Chair: Hamzah Zahid
Committee Rooms
1&2 of the Glamorgan Book online now: usaama-al-azami.eventbrite.co.uk
Building at 6pm. Wednesday 19th February 5pm
Please note that Dr Maryyum Mehmood
photographs and a
video will be taken of the ‘Through the Target’s Lens: Lived Realities of Antisemitism
lectures. Cardiff University and Islamophobia’
will assume the consent Chair: Laura Jones
of all those in attendance
Book online now: maryyum-mehmood.eventbrite.co.uk
and those that appear in
the media footage taken. Wednesday 4th March 5pm
Photographs and videos
are taken with the view to Prof. Mathew Guest
use in University and link ‘Anxiety and Stigma in the Lives of Muslim Students: How the
organisations’ websites, “Radicalisation” Narrative Shapes Higher Education in Britain’
marketing materials and
Chair: : Rev. David Sheen
related media coverage.
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