Hospitality and a warm welcome are embedded in the DNA of the Islam-UK Centre. We love to welcome visitors! But we also relish the opportunity to undertake fieldtrips, and to visit other important institutions in the landscape of Muslim communities in Britain. On 7th February 2024, Maulana Dr Mansur Ali and Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray were […]
Sam Bartlett, part of the Muslims in Wales project, came to the Madina Mosque in Cardiff to talk about the project. Watch more in this vlog. Ymwelodd Sam Bartlett, sy’n rhan o’r prosiect ymchwil Mwslimiaid yng Nghymru, â Mosg Madina yng Nghaerdydd i sôn am y prosiect. Gwyliwch ragor yn y blog fideo hwn.
As the dust settles on another successful run of the Discovering Muslims in Britain online CPD course, now is a good time to reflect. The Islam-UK Centre team created the Discovering Muslims in Britain course and teaching resources to support Religious Education (RE) teachers across the UK as they introduce sociological perspectives in the classroom. […]
Congratulations! You’ve made the monumental decision to apply for a PhD. As a recipient of the Jameel PhD Scholarship, currently in the fourth year of my PhD at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University, I am closely familiar with the application process. I was also previously awarded an […]
We were treated in May to the presence of a visiting scholar – Prof. Hansjoerg Schmid from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Hansjoerg works with the Swiss Center for Islam and Society, so you can already see some of the links between our Centre and his. Moreover, he specialises in Muslim chaplaincy, which is […]
In this vlog, the Centre’s deputy director Abdul-Azim Ahmed shares an update on his research project on Islam in Wales, with a special focus on his visit to the grave of Amelia Kadija Baksh in Carmarthenshire. The project was launched with a photo competition, and in this gallery, you can see some of the entries, […]
In the first of our series on research updates from Centre staff, director Sophie Gilliat-Ray discusses issues of diversity, inclusion, and exclusion in relation to religion in the workplace and in public life more generally. Here’s the transcript for Sophie’s vlog: Welcome to the Islam-UK Centre at Cardiff University…and to one of our regular research […]
On Monday 13 March 2023, my colleagues from the School of English and Philosophy (Dr Megan Leitch, Dr Stephen Gordon and Prof Martin Willis) and I (Dr Mansur Ali) with the assistance of Cardiff University AHSS library special collection staff, and led by Dr Megan Leitch (Reader in English Literature), launched our exhibition on ‘Sleep […]
On Sunday 12 March 2023, the British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) premiered its first movie on organ donation and Islam. The panel included transplant surgeons, organ transplant patients, nephrologists, organ donation activists, and myself, acting as the Muslim theologian on the panel. Many questions were raised by members of the public related to the law, […]
Photo by Mark Bryant The pursuit of “firsts” is always enticing in history as superlative claims help justify the importance of the findings in question. But such claims are always contentious and prone to contradiction. Given this, it is with some hesitation I’m sharing the story of the first Muslim grave in Wales – at […]
