Events at the Salaam Centre
Events are organised by the SICM and hosted on location at what will be the Salaam Centre.
You can attend or watch the presentations below. We also organise several other events for the community in the area.
The Salaam Centre Dinner
Saturday 7 October 2023
Events Calendar
Muslim Heritage in Britain
Event Details
Join us as we welcome AbdulMaalik Tailor as we hold a learning circle entitled “Muslim Heritage in Britain“.
This programme will be face to face and streamed online.
We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
Speaker
AbdulMaalik Tailor, a Muslim convert for over 20 years is London’s first professionally qualified Muslim Tour Guide. A Londoner from birth, he specialises in Muslim heritage in Britain. He is the founder of Muslim History Tours, specialising in Halal Domestic and UK Inbound travel. He organises a range of inspiring Muslim history walks within and out of London distinctively wearing his Fez hat. He is also involved in research and delivers talks relating to local and national Muslim heritage of Britain. He also works with the media to promote Muslim history in Britain as well as with local authorities.
AbdulMaalik also works with Schools, youth groups and other educational and community organisations to further community cohesion within the city, bringing together different communities. As part of Muslim History Tours, he acts as an inbound tour operator as well, welcoming tourists from afar to London, organising for them Muslim friendly and Halal hotels, cruises and other tours. In recognition of this, Muslim History Tours came runners up for World’s Best Halal Tour Operator in 2015 (losing out to Etihad!).
Hear his podcast on http://bit.ly/LondonsFirstMosque
Death and the Power of Regret
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Kawther Abbas as we hold a learning circle entitled “Death and the Power of Regret“.
This programme will be face to face and streamed online.
We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
Speaker
Kawther Abbas is a GP by profession, and also studies Hawza part time at Al-Mahdi Institute. She has been teaching Quran and doing Islamic talks for around 20 years and is the co-founder of the Muslim Families initiative which runs programs targeted at children and their families.
Master of the Art of Debate: A Seminar on Imam Jawad
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Dr Nebil Husayn as we hold a learning circle entitled “Master of the Art of Debate: A Seminar on Imam Jawad“.
This programme will be face to face and streamed online.
We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
Speaker
Nebil Husayn is a specialist in the field of Islamic studies. His research explores authoritarianism in the Middle East, debates on the caliphate, and the development of Islamic thought. Husayn also serves as a Senior Research Advisor for Mipsterz, an arts and culture collective curating, enabling, and amplifying artists of marginalized backgrounds through illustration, film, and music. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award and the University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities. Husayn obtained his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University. He is the author of Opposing the Imam (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which examines the history of early Muslims who were hostile to Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, and his descendants.
Husayn enjoys teaching a variety of courses and topics. They include the legacy of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers of New York (AAS 390/REL 372), early Islamic history (REL 271), gender (GSS 350/REL 371), Muslim spirituality and geopolitics (REL 370), atheism, and faith-based claims that invite skepticism (REL 102 and REL 104).