HAJI RUKNUDEEN SAHIB Qadi and Sheik-ul-Islam
Haji Ruknuddeen Sahib was bom in 1865 in Punjab, India to his parents Elahee and Ameena. He went through spiritual initiation and training as a…
Trinidad & Tobago
Young Muslim businessman kidnapped for ransom in Trinidad
NAAIL ALI, 26, was kidnapped outside his family’s Gasparillo hardware at about 8.45 am yesterday by three armed men and up to late yesterday, no…
Muharram Ritual and the Carnivalesque in Trinidad
Muharram Ritual and the Carnivalesque in Trinidad Beginning in the 19t h century, a wave of indentured workers were brought by the British from India…
Muslim and Missionaries of Trinidad
The Caribbean has seen two waves of Muslim migration, the first wave of which was comprised of slaves from Africa. Indentured labourers of India, who…
Muslim Women in Trinidad
Muslim Women in Trinidad Until recently we didn’t pay much attention to Muslims living next door, in the Caribbean and Latin America–not even to one…
Trinidad & Tobago Muslim Marriage & Divorce Regulations
Trinidad & Tobago Muslim Marriage & Divorce Regulations LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. 4. Chap. 45:02. Muslim Marriage and Divorce. 20. Filing of certificate and…
Reaction to the introduction of divorce law into Trinidad in 1931.
Reaction to the introduction of divorce law into Trinidad in 1931. The attached scanned document illustrates the reaction of Trinidad’s population to the introduction of…
Trinidad Muslims Celebrate Indian Arrival Day
The Indian Arrival Day celebrations started at 10 am and included a range of activities. There were several booths selling traditional East Indian clothing, food,…
Muslims Arrival tied to indentured experience
Haji Kamal Hosein, PRO of the Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association (ASJA) said when Muslims first came to TT as indentured servants, they were not allowed to…
Bacchanal in the Land of Carnival
GIVEN the level of crime in the idyllic Caribbean island-state of Trinidad and Tobago, everything from murder and kidnapping to corruption and robbery, I was…