The Making of the East London Mosque, 1910–1951
Minutes of the London Mosque Fund and East London Mosque Trust Ltd

The book gives a detailed history of the establishment of the East London Mosque and related documents.

Humayun Ansari (Edited by)

9781107014923, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 June 2011

360 pages
22.3 x 14.5 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg

'For this ground-breaking research study and the resultant fascinating publication, ANsari is to be generously applauded … "must have" acquisition …' The Muslim World Book Review

In 2010, the East London Mosque celebrated its centenary. One hundred years earlier, the Aga Khan and Syed Ameer Ali had convened a public meeting at the London Ritz Hotel, where they set out a strategy for the construction of a mosque in London that would be 'worthy of the capital of the British Empire'. The Mosque, however, took a long time to materialise. From the Commercial Road in the East End of London in which it was eventually first set up in 1941, it moved to Fieldgate Street and on to the Whitechapel Road in 1985. Through the lens of the original Minutes and related documents, Professor Ansari takes us on the fascinating journey of how the newly emerging confident Muslim community of the early twentieth century and major figures of the British establishment reached out to one another, each looking to nurture the development of this new multicultural society.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction: the London Mosque Fund and the East London Mosque 1910–1941
The London Mosque Fund and the East London Mosque 1941–1951
The East London Mosque from 1951
The East London Mosque and increasing Islamic observance
Minutes and related correspondence of the East London Mosque Fund and the East London Mosque Trust Ltd (1910–1951)
Appendix 1. Information on key individuals mentioned in the 1910–1951 minutes
Appendix 2. Articles of Association of the East London Mosque Trust Limited, 1948
Appendix 3. Selected documents relating to the East London Mosque, the Jamiat-ul-Muslimin, and related developments in the late 1930s and early 1940s
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Islam [HRH], Social & cultural history [HBTB], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], British & Irish history [HBJD1], History [HB]