[holding answer 22 January 2008]: In my right hon. Friend’s answer of 18 December, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government identified two roundtable meetings at which the issue of women’s access to mosque life was discussed. The following academics and theologians attended the first of these meetings:
Name Prof. Tariq Ramadan University of Oxford Prof. Tim Winters University of Cambridge Dr. Anas Sheikh-Ali AMSS UK Prof. Ron Geaves Liverpool Hope University Sheikh Gamal Manna Muslim College Dr. Usama Hasan Middlesex University Mehri Niknam Joseph Interfaith Foundation Dr. Shahid Raza British Muslim Forum Dilwar Hussein Islamic Foundation Dr. Musharraf Hussain Karimia Institute Prof. Haleh Afshar University of York Maleiha Malik Kings College London
The following stakeholders attended the second meeting.
Name Batool Al Toma Islamic Foundation Parvin Ali QBE FATMA Women’s Network Naheed Arshad-Mather Chair, Yorkshire and Humber Regional Panel Zuleka Dala Mental Health Development Team, Yorkshire Primary Care Trust Reedah El-Saie Barrister Shahda Khan Principal Community Cohesion Officer, Middlesbrough Council Sabira Murtaza Lakha World Federation of Khoja Shi’a Ithna Asheri Adeeba Malik QED-UK Sabin Malik Principal Community Cohesion Officer, London borough of Hounslow Andleen Razaq Diversity Awareness Trainer, Metropolitan Police Force Shahien Taj Henna Foundation
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government also identified two stakeholder roundtable meetings. The following persons attended one or both of these meetings:
Name Yousif al-Khoei Al-Koei Foundation Khurshid Ahmed British Muslim Forum Irfan Chishti Sufi Muslim Council Yasmin Alibhai-Brown British Muslims for Secular Democracy Parvin Ali FATIMA Women's Network Shahien Taj Henna Foundation Dr. Abdul Bari Muslim Council of Britain Abdulkarim Kubica Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre Shaista Gohir Muslim Women’s Network Mohammed Imran Muslim Youth Helpline Hashim Duale Somali Community, Leicester Yahya Birt City Circle Sabira Lakha World Federation of Khoja Shi’a Ithna Asheri Aneela Majid British Muslims for Secular Democracy
[holding answer 22 January 2008]: The good practice guide on effective initiatives to strengthen the role that Muslim women play in their communities was published on 23 January.