Islam: including papers from the Oxford Seminar on Islam and the West, October 1982

This file relates to Islam. It contains correspondence concerning:

• The award by the King Faisal Foundation of a prize in medicine to the British doctor David Cornelius Morley, as well as other prizes in Islamic thought and literature
• The reporting in the Saudi Arabian press of rumours that British schools are not allowing the teaching of Qur’anic studies to Muslim students
• The opinion of Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Baz that Sharia Law bans women from driving
• The International Commission on Muslim Minorities and the Islamic Council of Europe’s seminar in London on the topic of Muslims in Europe. The seminar concluded by requesting official recognition of Islam by European governments, with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) reply that there is no constitutional provision for official recognition of minority religions, but that the right to free religious practice is protected
• The Islamic Council of Europe’s statement condemning the trial of the assassins of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and its criticism of the current President Hosni Mubarak
• The relationship of Islam to Freemasonry, with an article published in the UAE Armed Forces’ magazine Dir Al Watan
• The article by Ahmad von Denferr on Christianity in the Gulf
• The Oxford University seminar on Islam and the West, with an attached programme.