May Update: WATCH: Video of Inaugural Ibn Sina Lecture plus More

View this email in your browser MAY 2024 HOLD THE DATE: Against Genocide – is a new Israel/Palestine possible? 2024 MUSLIM INSTITUTE WINTER GATHERING:  Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd November Sarum College, Salisbury. PRELIMINARY DETAILS HERE The full video book launch held in March 2024 of the new ground-breaking The Qur'an: A Verse Translation and the CM Saliha launch and memorial event (with subtitles) held in January 2024 are now available to view. The Muslim Institute inaugural annual Ibn Sina Lecture took place on Friday 26th April 2024 at the Civic Hall, Leeds.  The lecture was accompanied by an Islamic art and artefacts exhibition, part of the collection of Razwan Baig, who gave guided lectures for audiences throughout the afternoon in the run-up to the lecture.  The keynote speaker was Dr Fedor Benevich, University of Edinburgh, who spoke to an audience of around 170 guests. Dr Benevich's talk 'Ibn Sina – the Philosopher's Philosopher from the Golden Age of Islam' was followed by a Q&A session with the audience. The evening was rounded off by food kindly donated by My Lahore, Leeds. The event was opened by the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Al Garthwaite.  Watch the full video of the event and photos here BBC Leeds radio journalist Aisha Iqbal Khan produced a comprehensive radio piece of the day, including interviews with the audience. You can also listen to it on BBC Sounds (at 1:37:26 into the programme) here Scotland: Issue 49 of Critical Muslim Robin Yassin-Kassab travels to the most northerly mosque in Scotland, Jeremy Henzell-Thomas confesses his affection for all things Scottish, Leila Aboulela identifies three Scots who influenced her novels, Saqib Razzaq outlines the Muslim heritage of Scotland, Nayab Khalid tries to save the Scottish environment, Arusa Qureshi falls in love with hip hop, Kirsty MacDougall attempts to revive Gaelic language and culture, Robin Ade goes fishing, Alycia Pirmohamed meanders around Scottish coastline, James Brooks sits through the films of Ken Loach, Bill Holmes (Mohammad Ameen) paints the Galloway uplands, and our list of ten Scottish things. Also in this issue: John O'Donoghue reads a refreshing novel about refugees, Abdullah Geelah is impressed by Todd Webb's photographs of Africa, Steve Noyes sifts through five Muslim memoirs, short stories by Shah Tazrian Ashrafi and Parand, poems by Zahra Wadia, Deema K Shehabi, and David Pollard, Mishal Saif's analysis of blasphemy in Pakistan and Amandla Thomas-Johnson's American Diary.  Get your copy here. Fellows receive complimentary copies. Book launch -The Qur'an: A Verse Translation On Tuesday 5th March 2024, days before the start of Ramadan, the Muslim Institute teamed up with publishers W. W. Norton & Company to host Bruce Lawrence and M.A.R. Habib for the London launch of their new ground-breaking publication The Qur'an: A Verse Translation.  The event, open to Muslim Institute fellows and the public, took place in the beautiful surroundings of the library at Conway Hall, central London. The chair, Farhana Mayer, engaged the two authors in an introductory conversation, interspersed by readings from their new translation. This gave the audience a fascinating insight into their 10 year endeavour to render the Qur'an into verse. The conversation was followed by an audience Q&A that made for a wide-ranging and deep engagement with the speakers and their newly wrought text. The evening ended with a book-signing, with everyone present receiving a specially designed and produced Muslim Institute/Critical Muslim bookmark to go along with their new copy of the Qur'an. The entire event was filmed. Click here to view the video and photos from the event.  The Muslim Institute at 50: What happened and how the world changed The biggest and most successful Muslim Institute Winter Gathering for many years took place in December 2023 at Sarum College, Salisbury. Fellows and friends heard an array of local and international speakers brought together by the Institute to celebrate and interrogate the 2023 theme The Muslim Institute at 50: What happened and how the world changed. Many of the speakers during the weekend residential were there at the start of the Institute's journey in 1973 and had flown from the Middle East, North America and Africa to be with us. They were joined with key activists who have built Muslim political, social and community organisations in the UK across the decades. Also taking part was Bosnia's Grand Mufti Emeritus Mustafa Cerić. As one new fellow told us "what an excellent and mentally-stimulating weekend this was". Three of our fellows have written their personal impressions of the Winter Gathering and what they took away from the event.  You can read them here. 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