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Muslims leaving prison talk about the layers of their lives

15 Aug 2018

The Lammy Review in 2017 drew attention to inequalities among black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the criminal justice system. It also flagged...

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The last Muslim King in Spain

18 May 2017

The history, myths and legends surrounding the last Muslim ruler in Spain – whose surrender ended seven centuries of Islam at the heart of Western...

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Discarded History exhibition lifts the lid on 1,000 years of medieval history

27 Apr 2017

Treasures from the world’s largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts – chronicling 1,000 years of history in Old Cairo –...

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Engraving of threshing near Ogosta, Bulgaria, second half of the 19th century

Beyond the harem: ways to be a woman during the Ottoman Empire

12 Aug 2016

A new volume of essays looks afresh at women’s lives during the 600 years of the Ottoman empire. The book challenges the stereotypes of female lives...

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Shrine in Tinghir, southern Morocco

Bringing Berber empires into focus as contributors to Islamic culture

06 Jul 2016

The Almoravid and Almohad empires flourished in the western Mediterranean of the 11th and 12th centuries. Despite controlling vast tracts of land...

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Lines of Thought: Communicating Faith

27 May 2016

Some of the world’s most important religious texts are currently on display in Cambridge as part of Cambridge University Library’s 600th anniversary...

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Freedom of Speech by Ahdieh Ashrafi via Flickr

Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain

28 Apr 2016

Mainstream media reporting about Muslim communities is contributing to an atmosphere of rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain, according to a...

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Woman praying

Opinion: Hard Evidence: Muslim women and discrimination in Britain

06 Apr 2016

Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the forms of discrimination faced by Muslim women in Britain.

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Opinion: Why both sides are wrong in the counter-extremism debate

07 Mar 2016

Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the Government's Prevent strategy and counter-extremism in Britain.

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Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison at prayer in Norwich, 2016

Male converts to Islam: landmark report examines conversion experience of British Muslims

03 Feb 2016

The experiences of British male converts to Islam have been captured in a unique report launched today by the University of Cambridge.

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Pilgrims at the Masjid al-Haram on Hajj in 2008

Package tour to Mecca? How the Hajj became an essential part of the British calendar

21 Sep 2015

This week, millions of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj. A new study reveals how, in the age of Empire, the spiritual...

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From one extreme to the next?

05 Feb 2015

The threat to peace posed by the Islamic State group has been described as “unprecedented in the modern age”, yet research on the rise and fall of an...

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