UK Islamic Mission
The UK Islamic Mission ( UKIM ; United Kingdom Islamic Mission ) is a Daʿwa organization in the United Kingdom . The registered charity was founded in December 1962 by supporters of the Pakistani Jamaat-i Islami (JI) at the East London Mosque in London . Their think tank and publishing house is the Islamic Foundation in Leicester . According to the Islamic scholar Jocelyne Cesari, the UK Islamic Mission is represented “with over 40 branches and Islamic Centers working all over British Isles” (2004). UK Islamic Mission leaders include Muhammad Sarfraz Madni, Zahid Parvez and Abdul Hamid Qureshi. In the city of Oldham, north of Manchester , the organization has set up a new Islamic center, the European Islamic Center .
See also
References and footnotes
- ↑ ukim.org : About us (accessed February 14, 2018)
- ↑ The head of Islamopedia Online .
- ^ Jocelyne Cesari: When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States. 2004, p. 201
literature
- Roger Ballard: Desh Pardesh: The South Asian Presence in Britain. 1994 ( partial online view )
- Innes Bowen: Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam. 2014, ISBN 978-1-84904-529-2 , p. 84 ff .: " Maududi 's followers in the UK" ( partial online view )
- Mutalib, Hussin, Hashmi, Taj ul-Islam (Eds.): Islam, Muslims and the Modern State. Case Studies of Muslims in Thirteen Countries. 1994 ( partial online view )
- Ismail al-Faruqi : The Path of Da'wah in the West. UK Islamic Mission, London, 1986.
- Khurram Murad : Da'wah among Non-Muslims in the West: Some Conceptual and Methodological Aspects. The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 1986.
- Khurram Murad : Muslim Youth in the West. Islamic Foundation, Leicester 1986