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Starts Monday 21st July, 6: 30 pm at The Ihsan Mosque
The next two in the series of talks by Umm Mehmet will take place on Wednesdays at 6.30pm not Mondays.
A series of four lectures to be given by Umm Mehmet Currie who currently teaches at university in Turkey, but who has also lectured for many years here in the UK.
We are very fortunate to have this opportunity to take advantage of her outstanding grasp of Islamic history and her particular interest in the Muslim perspective on economics.
1) 21st July
The Spread of Islam in Europe
2) 28th July
The Caliphate
3) 6th August
The Gold Dinar and Riba
4) 13th August
The Globalisation of Riba
The lectures are open to men and women.
THE NEW BEDOUINS: An Islamic Odyssey »
A Memorable Success…
This was the title chosen by the Norwich Muslim community for a photographic exhibition on Islam that was to last three days from Friday 13th June to Sunday the 15th 2008. The exhibition found the perfect venue in the Forum, the city centre’s recently built modern architectural showpiece and most frequented public space.
The event was launched with an appreciative address by the Lord Mayor, councillor Jeremy Hooke, after which the large audience listened to the captivating narrative, related by Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley (joint translator of the highly respected, The Noble Qur’an: a new rendering of its meanings in English) and Hajj Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison (community head), as they charted the community’s earliest origins, the foundation of the Ihsan and Brixton Mosques and the convergence of the two historical groups of new Muslims who continue to remain active at the core of the growing Norwich Muslim community.
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THE NEW BEDOUINS: An Islamic Odyssey »
The Forum, Norwich, 13th-15th June 10am-6pm
The Society of Islam in England presents a multi-faceted exhibition that provides a unique insight into Europe’s longest standing community of new Muslims and their journey from sixties London and Morocco to their arrival in Norwich and ongoing impact on national and international perceptions of Islam
The Official Launch of the exhibition takes place on Friday 13th June, with an Opening Presentation at the Forum
Blogs
Apropos Channel 4’s programme “The Qur’an” shown on Monday the 14th of July, the debate that is being stirred up by some orientalists around the text of the Qur’an takes place, predictably enough, in the context of a pseudo-science, orientalism, whose definitions of terms and axioms are horrendously anti-intellectual and, frankly, indefensible.
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This debate about the introduction of the Shariah in the UK is so ill-informed
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An interesting story on the front pages: scientists have shown that e-numbers
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Khutbahs
- Virtues - 30/06/08
- Call to Islam - 30/06/08
- All Mosques Belong to Allah - 30/06/08
- Vastness - 30/06/08
- Marriage - 30/06/08
Articles
To see things clearly, with focus and in perspective one needs two eyes.
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Given the centrality to Muslims of Mecca and Medina, and the astonishing oil
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There is little doubt that the mass murder of 11 September represents a turning
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