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Making History: Connecting the Past with

the Future

Professor Humayun Ansari,Royal Holloway, University of

London

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)

Cover of the Mirror of British Merchandise magazine, 1893

Lascars

Sake Deen Mohamed (Founder of the first Indian Restaurant in London –

c.1810

Collage featuring lascars at work and in their lodgings on shore, Illustrated London News, 1906

Khwaja Kamaluddin and Lord Headley on Pilgrimage, 1923

Conversions to Islam, 1960

Strangers Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders, 1857

Munshi Abdul Karim C.I.E. – Queen Victoria’s Indian Secretary

A Yemeni Funeral in South Shields

Brick Lane Mosque

Lady Evelyn Cobbold, on her estate in Scotland and on Pilgrimage

Muslim Burial Ground, Woking, 1915

Liverpool’s First Mosque, 1889

In the Main Hall of the Strangers Home

Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital

1924 Newspaper advertisement for P and O and British India Lines, connecting the empire

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