Abdal Hakim Murad – Closing remarks
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We have been pondering in some detail and with a range of often
quite brilliant and meticulous historical approaches this
interesting fact that perhaps uniquely amongst major Western
Muslim communities, British Muslims have this very
distinctive, sometimes eccentric, but sometimes quite passionate
prehistory. It will be difficult, I think, to imagine in the context
of many Western European countries such a constellation of luminaries
as Pickthall Quilliam, Parkinson and others, perhaps this is just
my ignorance, but it does seem that we have this dis advantage.
And I've also been very happy with the extent to which the speakers
have avoided the obvious temptation of proposing these
individuals as people who can simply be wheeled, wheeled out, in
order to generate solutions to the problems that communities are
facing today. We don't inhabit a world in which there is a an
Ottoman Sultan Kalish. We don't inhabit a world in which generally
the perception of Muslims is framed in the context of different
races. We don't live in the context of a triumphant British
Empire, our questions are different. But still, we find at
least in the energy of those people and the way in which in
their distinctive ways in their Victorian or Edwardian contexts,
they were able to find ways of recognizably unmistakably
undeniably inhabiting both spaces of as it were being amphibians,
very English are very Scottish, but also at the same time
unmistakably true and faithful to an Islamic passion as they
understood it. That I think is something that we can all take
away with us today. And hugely grateful to all of the speakers.
It's evident that some of them most of them, I think, really
worked very hard on their their presentations. My hope is that if
we speak nicely enough to them, they will allow us to take their
scripts from their, their clutches and put them together to create
what I hope will be quite an interesting collection of essays.
It's been a great privilege for us here in the college to be the
midwife of that. That project.
grateful to the organizers, my head, rather marginal roll myself,
but a lot of hard work has gone into this. Dr. Asif Abdul Aziz
Amara Davina and everybody in the office, of course Latif, the cook
who has been slaving away while we've been enjoying this
intellectual feast. And, of course, the incumbent at St.
Paul's Church here, we just inhabit the former vicarage. And
this is this is the main space of the complex. And my hopes that we
will be able to do this again looking at it from different
angles, but also conferences on other aspects of the British
Muslim experience is very much at the heart of what we do. And
thanks also those who have been contributing with with donations
and to the Nuffield Foundation, who have generously undertaken to
underwrite the main costs of this we're hugely grateful to everybody
for their goodwill and for their for their prayers. were accepted
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