Abu Bakr Beaumont-Benjamin 1932 Letter to Islamic Review – UK
On Friday August 5th 1932 Roderick Leofric Beaumont-Benjamin became Muslim adopting the name Abu Bakr. He wrote his testimonial to the Islamic Review. His letter…
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Dr Nasser Mustapha shares his vision of TT
Nasser Mustapha, PhD, Sociology, UWI, is currently a senior lecturer in sociology and head of the behavioral sciences department at UWI, St Augustine. He is…
Education Among Early Muslims In Trinidad
The Need for Education The Indian family served as both an economic unit and an agency for the transmission of knowledge, skills and values to…
The TML’s Founding Fathers
The three founding fathers of the Trinidad Muslim League Incorporated, Moulvi Ameer Ali (1898-1973), Mohammed Hakeem Khan (1902-1957) and Mohammed Rafeeq (1904-1962) founded the League…
Libya donates US$10k for flood relief in Guyana
Georgetown, Guyana (25-Feb-2009): Representative of Libya’s World Islamic Call Society (WICS) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Fuad Elghahuagi met with Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo…
Haji Gokool Meah (ra)
How many of us would have known that the expression “cool as Gokool” referred to Haji Gokool Meah (1847-1939) who came on an indenture ship…
Hafiz Yacoob Ali (ra)
Yacoob Ali, born in 1875, at age thirteen in 1888, was sent back to Oudh, India by his father Shaikh Bahadoor Ali to get an…
Moulvi Ameer Ali
Moulví Ameer ‘Ali was born in 1898 at Pointe-a-Pierre,Trinidad. He privately tutored himself until 1923, when an opportunity was extended to him through Moulvi Fazal…
Vidya Pooran Muradali
All eyes were focused in the direction of this charming lady who walked across the room at Gulf City Shopping Complex. Like a professional model…
History-Glimpses of Guyanese History
The British Guiana Centenary Year Book, 1831-1931, edited by E. Sievewright Stoby, was published in 1931 to celebrate the centenary of the unification of the…