Diving in: thoughtful starting points

External links

Muslim diversity: a community of communities

• Data from Clive D. Field, co-founder of British Religion in Numbers

Muslim diversity

• Report on the history of images of Prophet Muhammad from the Guardian

Persian manuscripts from the British Library’s collection of 11,000

• Access to Persian manuscripts
• What were Mughal's favourite book

A conference discussing the value of Shahab Ahmed’s book, including videos. Shahab Ahmed’s work is making waves in the academic world, but may not be reaching ‘grassroots’. It might be considered a modernist, liberal approach to Islam

• BRAIS workshop: on the importance of being Islamic

Exploring mosques

• Find your nearest mosque

Mosques in Britain:

• Heritage Calling website: 5 Magnificent English Mosques
• Historic England website: The British Mosque
• iNews website: What Britain’s beautiful mosques teach us about our shared history
• Daily Mail: Britains stunning mosques revealed
• Muslim Hands website

Green mosques:

• GIZ website: Green mosques
• The Guardian: Morocco to give 600 mosques a green makeover
• GIZ website: Morocco: green mosques and buildings
• London Sustainability Exchange website
• Cambridge news

Open My Mosque:

• Facebook: Open my mosque

An inclusive mosque:

• The Telegraph: The truth about 'patriarchal' mosques and their women problem
• Muslim Women’s Council
• Women-led mosque
• The Inclusive Mosque Initiative
• Inclusive Mosque Twitter

Lived religion

Mahtab Hussain – photographer:

• BBC: 'What do artists do all day'
• 'You get me'

Leila Fatemi’s – photographer:

• ‘The Hijab Series’. 24 Muslim women talk about what hijab means to them

Reports from Faith Matters

• Muslim converts
• The Role of Righteous Muslims
• Factsheets
• Muslim arrivals to the UK
• The Muslim 500
• Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND)
• Runnymede Trust: The New Muslims