Sat 31 May: Annual Ibn Sina Lecture & Islamic Exhibition, Bradford City Hall + MORE

View this email in your browser MAY 2025 Second Annual Ibn Sīnā Lecture: Modern Medicine and the Legacy of Ibn Sīnā Saturday 31 May 2025, 6pm Bradford City Hall Council Chamber, Bradford To book your place, click here  Watch the trailer here    Keynote speaker: Syma Khalid. Professor of Computational Microbiology at the University of Oxford. Awarded the Suffrage Science award for engineering and physical sciences in 2021.  Professor Syma Khalid was born in Wolverhampton to a family of first-generation immigrants from Northern Pakistan. She was the eldest child and started school without being able to speak a word of English (but being fluent in Punjabi and Urdu). She was educated at a local comprehensive school followed by a girl's grammar school. Syma read Chemistry at Warwick, followed by a PhD at the same institution. She started her professional academic career in the Department of Chemistry at Southampton. In 2021 she was appointed Professor of Computational Microbiology at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Biochemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is a keen supporter of Liverpool football club and a fan of qawalli music.   There will also be an exhibition on the day of the event (from 1pm). Entrance by advance ticket only. Razwan Baig will exhibit historic and rare Islamic artefacts from the Baig collection, alongside works from his own practice of calligraphy. To book your tickets for a guided tour via Eventbrite click here.   The event will be chaired by Professor Adeeba Malik CBE.   The lecture this year is in Bradford to coincide with the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.    The event catering is kindly sponsored by My Lahore. ***** Watch and view photos of the Book launch: 'Three Begums: The Women Who Shaped My Life' & Critical Muslim 53 'Water' This special event held on 7 May 2025 was a unique opportunity to hear author Ziauddin Sardar in conversation with journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.   Organised by the Muslim Institute in conjunction with Hurst Publishers, the launch was a unique opportunity to hear Muslim polymath and public intellectual Ziauddin Sardar in conversation with renowned and award-winning journalist and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.   The event also launched Critical Muslim 53: Water with readings from Naomi Foyle and Alev Adil.  *****  British Muslim Futures Network Over an intense weekend of lectures and workshops in April 2025, participants identified trends and emerging issues in British Muslim communities.     The British Muslim Futures Network is a project of the Muslim Institute and dedicated to the development of a cohort of Muslims engaged in futures strategy and planning for British Muslim communities. It is convened by our trustee Shenaz Bunglawala.  Click here for details.     Upcoming Events:   10th Annual Ibn Rushd Lecture On the Margins: The Life and Contribution of Muhammad Asad Wednesday 30 July 2025, 5.30pm,  Art Workers' Guild, London Keynote: Dr Josef Linnhoff, Research Fellow and Editor-in-Chief at The Institute for Advanced Usuli Studies ("The Usuli Institute") in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh (2020) and specializes in modern Islamic thought. Annual Muslim Institute Winter Gathering Friday 28 November – Sunday 30 November 2025. Sarum College, Salisbury.   The theme for 2025 will be 'By Any Means Necessary': Muslims, Politics And Power In The 21st Century. Details to follow.   ********************************************   ALSO: Watch the 9th Annual Ibn Rushd Lecture: The History of Muslim Women in Britain held in July 2024, the Inaugural Annual Ibn Sina Lecture held in April 2024 at Leeds Civic Hall, and the book launch held in March 2024 of the new ground-breaking The Qur'an: A Verse Translation.     CM 53: WATER IN THIS ISSUE: Scott Jordan immerses himself in images of water: Ebrahim Moosa is drowned and then saved by water; Liam Mayo learns a few lessons about water and modernity from the animated film Rango; Luke Wilkinson explores the notion of sea in the Qur'an, Christopher Burr Jones investigates our complex relationship with water; Wietske Merison suggests that the Sharia has a great deal to say about sinking cities; Jeremy Henzell-Thomas has a dream (several actually) of oceans and divinity, Shani Alexander remembers the well in her Carriacou home; Naomi Foyle comes to terms with metaphors of water, John Liechty reveals his deep reverence for water; Alev Adil has a sinking feeling; and Khuda Bushq meanders around Kuala Lumpur trying to discover how water speaks. Also in this issue: James Brooks and Liam McKenna go to the cinema to see films about Palestine; Iftikhar Malik reads a book that venerates the British Empire; Ghazal Tipu visits halal dating apps; a short story by Steve Noyes; poems by Saadia Peerzada and Abigail George; and our list of refreshing bidets (travel options included!).  Free to Muslim Institute fellows. About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews. Critical Muslim is edited by Ziauddin Sardar. To order this issue and subscriptions click here info@musliminstitute.org  |  www.musliminstitute.org Muslim Institute, 82 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3GN   Copyright © 2025 Muslim Institute, All rights reserved. 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