Cambridge Muslim College

Last updated

Cambridge Muslim College (CMC)
Cambridge Muslim College - Cambridge Place.png
Professor Joel Hayward teaching at Cambridge Muslim College
MottoFaith in Scholarship
Established2009
Address
14 St Paul’s Road
,
Cambridge
,
CB1 2EZ
,
United Kingdom
ProgramsBA (Hons) in Islamic Studies
Diploma in Contextual Islamic Studies & Leadership
Colours    
Website Official website
Cambridge Muslim college logo.png

Cambridge Muslim College is an independent higher education institution in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2009 by Timothy Winter (also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad). [1] [2] It was most recently (2023 and 2024) headed by Joel Hayward, a professor and senior education administrator, who served as Chief Executive. [3]

Contents

Cambridge Muslim College was founded to support British Muslim scholarship and training from secular and Islamic perspectives. [4] [5] It does not hold a political or denominational affiliation. [6]

Accredited by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education, [4] Cambridge Muslim College offers trained Muslim scholars a one year diploma in Islamic studies and leadership, designed to help them better implement their knowledge and training in 21st-century Britain. [7] It also hosts academics, including early-career scholars engaged in post-doctoral research, as full-time and associate research fellows. [8] [9] In 2017, Cambridge Muslim College launched a three-year BA (Hons) in Islamic Studies validated by The Open University.

History

In 2002, Timothy Winter, Yusuf Islam and Tijani Gahbiche agreed to the idea of establishing a centre of Islamic learning in Cambridge. Fundraising and consultations followed, and senior figures from the University of Cambridge such as Vice-Chancellor Alison Richard and Regius Professor of Divinity David F. Ford offered advice, as well as Muslim scholars such as Zaid Shakir, founder of Zaytuna College. [10]

Cambridge Muslim College was founded in 2009 by Timothy Winter, who is the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. [7] He has consistently been included in The Muslim 500 list published annually by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought. [11]

In its inaugural year it hosted a handful of students [12] and was temporarily based at the University of Cambridge's Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology while searching for a permanent home. In 2011, the College acquired the freehold of its current campus at St Paul's Road, for £3.1 million. In 2015, it purchased with a loan a large adjacent building at 20 Cambridge Place, which will be the core of the teaching and resources provision for the BA and MA programmes. [10] [13]

From 2023 to 2024, Joel Hayward served as Chief Executive. [14] [15] Kirkus Reviews said that Hayward "is undeniably one of academia’s most visible Islamic thinkers". [16] He is also considered to be one of "the world’s five hundred most influential Muslims," with his listing in the 2023 and 2034 editions of The Muslim 500 stating that "he weaves together classical Islamic knowledge and methodologies and the source-critical Western historical method to make innovative yet carefully reasoned sense of complex historical issues that are still important in today’s world." [17]

Site

Unity House Cambridge Muslim College A.jpg
Unity House

Cambridge Muslim College has been based at Unity House on St Paul's Road in central Cambridge since July 2011. The former vicarage was designed in 1847 by the Victorian architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. [13] The building has a large front office and two teaching rooms on the ground floor, a refectory and a kitchen. The first floor houses the library, the prayer room and offices of the chief executive, the dean and research fellows. The adjoining buildings – a row of former almshouses – are used to house the college's Arabic book collections. [18]

Curriculum and research

Cambridge Muslim College offers three programmes for students: the Diploma in Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership, the Diploma in Islamic Psychology, and the three-year B.A. (Hons) in Islamic Studies validated by The Open University. [19]

The Diploma in Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership is based on the 'non-traditional' segment of the proposed BA curriculum. It was agreed to launch the college's teaching programme with this diploma, which was designed for graduates of Islamic academies and madrasas to improve their understanding of Islam's relationship with the leading intellectual, legal, social and scientific trends of modern Britain. Around 20 students take the diploma each year. [8] Students take courses on a wide range of subjects including philosophy, world religions, western art, international affairs and British constitutional history. The programme also includes an open audience with the Pope in the Vatican City. [12] [8]

The Diploma in Islamic Psychology is an online programme designed to give students who are already practitioners in related fields theoretical and practical perspectives of psychology and the Islamic sciences.

The longer, three-year programme has a prerequisite one year of intensive Arabic study at the Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan, before starting the three years of classical Islamic studies in Cambridge. The curriculum is modelled on that of the Al-Fath Academy in Damascus, Syria and also draws on the programme of Al-Azhar University in Cairo. In addition to classical Islamic text study, a range of contemporary disciplines are also taught, including Western history, philosophy, and science, and the knowledge of non-Muslim religions. [10] [19]

Cambridge Muslim College hosts academics, including early-career scholars engaged in post-doctoral research, as full-time and associate research fellows. [8] [9] A part-time, two-year research-based postgraduate qualification is planned. [10]

See also

Related Research Articles

A bachelor's degree or baccalaureate is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years. The two most common bachelor's degrees are the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Science. In some institutions and educational systems, certain bachelor's degrees can only be taken as graduate or postgraduate educations after a first degree has been completed, although more commonly the successful completion of a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite for further courses such as a master's or a doctorate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hamza Yusuf</span> American Islamic scholar (born 1958)

Hamza Yusuf is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world.

Jamia Millia Islamia Central university in New Delhi, India

Jamia Millia Islamia is a central and research university located in New Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces during the British Empire in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla in 1935. It was given the deemed status by the University Grants Commission in 1962. Jamia Millia Islamia became a central university by an act of the Indian Parliament which was passed on 26 December 1988.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lasalle College of the Arts</span> Art school in Singapore

LASALLE College of the Arts, simply known as LASALLE, is a publicly-funded post-secondary arts institution in Singapore, and a constituent college of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) from 2024.

Honours degree has various meanings in the context of different degrees and education systems. Most commonly it refers to a variant of the undergraduate bachelor's degree containing a larger volume of material or a higher standard of study, or both, rather than an "ordinary", "general" or "pass" bachelor's degree. Honours degrees are sometimes indicated by "Hons" after the degree abbreviation, with various punctuation according to local custom, e.g. "BA (Hons)", "B.A., Hons", etc. In Canada, honours degrees may be indicated with an "H" preceding the degree abbreviation, e.g. "HBA" for Honours Bachelor of Arts or Honours Business Administration.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timothy Winter</span> British Islamic scholar

Timothy John Winter, also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism. His work includes publications on Islamic theology, modernity, and Anglo-Muslim relations, and he has translated several Islamic texts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Queen Margaret University</span> University in Musselburgh, Scotland, UK

Queen Margaret University is a university founded in 1875 and currently located in Musselburgh, East Lothian. It is named after the Scottish Queen Saint Margaret.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Islam in New Zealand</span>

Islam is the third-largest religion in New Zealand (1.3%) after Christianity (37.3%) and Hinduism (2.7%). Small numbers of Muslim immigrants from South Asia and eastern Europe settled in New Zealand from the early 1900s until the 1960s. Large-scale Muslim immigration began in the 1970s with the arrival of Indian Fijians, followed in the 1990s by refugees from various war-torn countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zaid Shakir</span> American Islamic scholar

Zaid Shakir is an American Muslim scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. He teaches courses on Arabic, law, history, and Islamic spirituality.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joel Hayward</span> New Zealand academic and writer (born 1964)

Joel Hayward is a New Zealand-born British scholar, academic and writer. He has been listed in the 2023 and 2024 editions of The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims. He has been the Dean of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell and is now the Chief Executive of the Cambridge Muslim College in the United Kingdom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education</span> Institute within the University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) is a department of the University of Cambridge dedicated to providing continuing education programmes which allow students to obtain University of Cambridge qualifications at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Its award-bearing programmes range from undergraduate certificates through to part-time master's degrees. ICE is the oldest continuing education department in the United Kingdom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Markfield Institute of Higher Education</span> Tertiary education institution

The Markfield Institute of Higher Education is an educational institution based in Leicestershire, in the United Kingdom. Specialising in Islamic subjects, the institute runs part-time and full-time courses, awarding BA and MA degrees validated by Newman University, and PhD degrees validated by the University of Gloucestershire. The institute is accredited by the British Accreditation Council, reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, and registered with the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse</span>

Sheikh Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse is the spiritual leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order. The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in Western Africa and its leader is responsible for nearly 300 million Sufi adherents.

<i>The 500 Most Influential Muslims</i> Annual publication of influential Muslims

The 500 Most Influential Muslims is an annual publication first published in 2009, which ranks the most influential Muslims in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ismail ibn Musa Menk</span> Zimbabwean Islamic scholar (born 1975)

Ismail ibn Musa Menk, commonly known as Mufti Menk, is a Zimbabwean Islamic speaker. He is the Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe's Muslim community, and head of the fatwa department for the Council of Islamic Scholars of Zimbabwe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">DISTED College</span> Private college in Penang, Malaysia

DISTED College is a private college within George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang. It was established in 1987 as the first Penang-based private tertiary institution. The college provides various pre-university, diploma and degree courses, some of which are twinned with foreign universities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera</span> British Islamic scholar (born 1974)

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera is a Sunni Islamic scholar, author, and founder of Whitethread Institute and Zamzam Academy. He authored Fiqh al-Imam and Healthy Muslim Marriage. He was featured in the 2020 edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.

<i>The Leadership of Muhammad</i> 2021 book on the leadership of Muhammad by Joel Hayward

The Leadership of Muhammad: A Historical Reconstruction is a 2021 biographical book about the leadership of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by British-New Zealand Islamic scholar Joel Hayward.

The Rabdan Academy is a government-owned education institution in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

<i>The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War</i> 2022 book on the warfare of Muhammad by Joel Hayward

The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War is a 2022 biographical book by British-New Zealand Islamic scholar Joel Hayward about the Islamic prophet Muhammad’s understanding of warfare and strategy.

References

  1. ↑ Haifaa A. Jawad (8 December 2011). Towards Building a British Islam: New Muslims' Perspectives. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 116–. ISBN   978-1-4411-1433-4.
  2. ↑ Nielsen, Jørgen; Akgönül, Samim; Alibašić, Ahmet; Racius, Egdunas (19 September 2013). Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. BRILL. pp. 693–. ISBN   978-90-04-25586-9.
  3. ↑ "Joel Hayward Personal Webpage". joelhayward.org/. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  4. 1 2 Matthew L.N. Wilkinson (30 October 2014). A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World: a philosophy for success through education. Taylor & Francis. pp. 25–. ISBN   978-1-317-59597-7.
  5. ↑ Clinton Bennett (20 November 2014). The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 35–. ISBN   978-1-4725-8689-6.
  6. ↑ "Aims and Objectives". Cambridge Muslim College. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Timothy Winter: Britain's most influential Muslim - and it was all down to a peach". The Independent. 19 August 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Islam finds a Cambridge home". The National. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  9. 1 2 "Research". Cambridge Muslim College. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "History". Cambridge Muslim College. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  11. ↑ The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2023 . Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  12. 1 2 "Muslim integration college opens". BBC News. 15 October 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  13. 1 2 "Muslim college in Cambridge expands and launches bid to raise £800,000". Cambridge News. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  14. ↑ "Cambridge Muslim College: Chief Executive: Professor Joel Hayward". Cambridge Muslim College. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  15. ↑ "Joel Hayward Personal Webpage". joelhayward.org/. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  16. ↑ "A well-researched and applicable analysis of Muhammad's leadership". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  17. ↑ The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2023 . Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  18. ↑ "Unity House". Cambridge Muslim College. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  19. 1 2 "BA (Hons) Programme". Cambridge Muslim College. Retrieved 29 August 2016.

52°11′52″N0°07′48″E / 52.1979°N 0.1301°E / 52.1979; 0.1301

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.