British Muslim Studies at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect

MBRN isa scholarly organisation whose aims are to promote and share academic research into Muslims and Islam in Britain and to build connections between academics, students, professionals, researchers, journalists and practitioners.

Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN)

This conference offers a space to reflect on developments in BMS over the past 50 yrs & to showcase emerging research & new understandings.

Cardiff University - Glamorgan Building

Though still in its infancy as a sub-field, the academic study of British Muslims in UK institutions of higher education is now over five decades old. Since the 1960s/1970s, research and teaching about Britain’s Muslims has developed and expanded - advancing our understanding and knowledge of Britain’s diverse and dynamic Muslim population in myriad disciplines - including but not limited to sociology, history, religious studies, Islamic Studies, geography, politics, and their various intersections.Over the past decade or so, British Muslim Studies (BMS) has seen the emergence and flourishing of successive cohorts of scholars from within Muslim communities – complicating and enriching the field by interrogating definitions, concepts and parameters of understanding. This, coupled with the long tradition of engagement and partnership with community institutions, practitioners and grassroots spaces means it is an exciting time for BMS and an apt moment to cast a retrospective glance over the past 50 years, while looking ahead towards future prospects.This conference will examine some of the main contributions to BMS, including a specific focus on research institutes and centres. It will also pay tribute to four recently departed pioneers of BMS: Professors Roger Ballard, Mohammed Anwar, Ataullah Siddiqui and Haleh Afshar. (Provisional Programme)British Muslim Studies at 50: Retrospect and ProspectGlamorgan Building, University of CardiffKing Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WTDAY ONE: 14th September 202210:30-11:00 am – arrival, registration11:00 am – welcome from MBRN committee 11:20 am – Keynote lecture: Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) British Muslim Studies at 50: a historical perspective (Chair: Khadijah Elshayyal)12:20 pm - Lunch 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm - Remembering Four Pioneers (Chair: Sariya Cheruvalil-Contractor)Professor Haleh Afshar (from Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Coventry University)Professor Muhammad Anwar (from Ajmal Hussain, Warwick University)Dr Roger Ballard (from Sean McLoughlin, University of Leeds)Professor Ataullah Siddiqui (from Batool Al Toma, Convert Muslim Foundation)Followed by personal tributes/reflections from delegates (please indicate at payment stage in booking form if you would like to participate) 2: 50 pm – Panels 1 and 2 (in parallel)Panel 1 – Interrogating British Muslim Studies (Chair: Usaama Al-Azami) **Committee Room 1**Abdul Azim Ahmed (Cardiff University) Anglophone Islam: a new conceptual categoryYahya Birt (Ayaan Institute) and Fatima Rajina (Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University): Decolonising British Muslim Studies: towards a critique of identity and belongingSabah Khan (Ambedkar University) Studying Muslims in Britain: deconstructing the field Michael Munnik (Cardiff University) Is it wrong to want to change the narrative? Subjectivity and the Muslim journalist Panel 2: The understudied in everyday faith and worship (Chair: Asma Khan)**Seminar Room 0.86**Ummu Eymen Balbaba (Istanbul University) Analysis of the concept of Wilayat al Ulama: Shari’a Councils in the UKQudra Goodall (University of East Anglia) Everyday forms of faith and ethical practice: a case study of Convert Muslim women in NorwichLaura Jones (Cardiff University) Researching Ramadan in the UK Fatou Sambe (Cardiff University) Centring Black Muslim Convert Experiences in Britain4:20 pm Tea/Coffee 4:45 pm – MBRN Annual General Meeting 5:25 pm – 6:15 pm – Hanan Issa, National Poet of Wales (Chair: Abdul Azim Ahmed)Special event with Hanan Issa, National Poet of Wales, sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Islam in the U.K., Cardiff University6:45 pm – Dinner at local restaurants (optional)DAY TWO: 15th September 202210:00 am ‘Quick pitches’ on new and current research projects (Chair: Asma Khan)Abdul Azim Ahmed Cultural Heritage in WalesSadiya Ahmed Everyday MuslimUsaama Al Azami British Muslim Civil Society/Mercy Mission Sariya Cheruvalil-Contractor Adoption and fostering Khadijah Elshayyal Digital British Islam10:35 am – Panels 3 and 4 (in parallel) Panel 3: New Approaches in British Muslim Studies (Chair: Yahya Birt) ** Committee Room 1 **Rahmanara Chowdhury (Markfield Institute for Higher Education) Domestic Violence and Abuse in UK Muslim Communities: Web model of DVA - A Multi perspective IPA Approach Tariq Mahmood (HMP Whitemoor) Islamic Guidance Programme- A Spiritually Based Diagnostic and Intervention Model Saiyyidah Zaidi (Independent Scholar) ‘Blessed are the Strangers’: Hypothesising Collaboration between British Muslim Studies and British Practical TheologyPanel 4: British Muslim Studies as a space for Agency and Praxis (Chair: Michael Munnik)** Seminar Room 0.86 **Sharaiz Chaudhry (University of Edinburgh) Islamic liberation theology: How do those involved in praxis against class and economic oppression use Islam as a liberative tool in the British context? Nevine Nasser (Independent Scholar) Reclaiming Tradition: Creating Transformative Narratives in Contemporary Islamic ArchitectureAsim Qureshi (CAGE) Refusing to Condemn: a praxis Asma Khan (Cardiff University) Beliefs and Myths: British Muslim women making sense of their economic inactivity11:50 am – Tea/Coffee12:10 pm Panel 5: British Muslim institutions: Issues and innovations (Chair: Fatima Rajina) ** Committee Room 1 **Mikahil Azad (Birmingham City University) Safety in and around the space of the mosque: a Birmingham ethnographic studySufyan Dogra (Bradford Institute of Health Research) and Muhammad Zubair Butt (Faith in Communities, UK) British Madrassas and health promotion: Behaviour change in NHS, local authorities, and new horizons for faith based community services Stephen H Jones (University of Birmingham) Crossing Worlds and Remaking Networks: Negotiating Islam and Science within British Muslim Educational InstitutionsSean McLoughlin (University of Leeds) Three ages of Hajj-going from post-war Britain 1962-2022: independent travel, the UK’s Munazzams (organisers) and Saudi Arabia’s new online travel agency1:25 pm – Lunch 2:40 pm - MBRN Early Career Academic Researcher Survey2:50 pm - ‘Whither British Muslim studies? What should researchers in the field be focusing on?’ roundtable discussion with Sophie Gilliat Ray, Yahya Birt and Shamim Miah, editors of new Oxford University Press British Muslim Studies series (Chair: Stephen Jones) 3:50 pm – Conference Close - (Sariya Cheruvalil-Contractor and Sophie Gilliat-Ray)

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