{{Short description|Islamic organization based in the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox organization | name = Muslim Educational Trust | image = | type = Educational Organisation | abbreviation = MET | leader_title = Chairman | leader_name = Prof Ghulam Sarwar<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|317855688}} |last1=d'Ancona |first1=Matthew |title=Union's school grant attack angers Muslims;Muslim education |work=The Times |location=London |date=7 October 1992 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|291211034}} |title=Britain's Muslims See Bias in State Aid Program for Schools |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=1 September 1993 }}</ref> | location = London | coordinates = {{Coord|51|34|09.3|N|0|06|41.9|W}} | website = {{URL|http://www.muslim-ed-trust.org.uk/}}{{dead link|date=July 2020}} | formation = {{Start date and age|1966}}<ref>{{cite web|title=THE MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL TRUST FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2016|url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends92/0000313192_AC_20160405_E_C.PDF|website=apps.charitycommission.gov.uk|accessdate=18 February 2017}}</ref> }}
'''Muslim Educational Trust''' ('''MET''') is an educational organisation offering information, advice and publications about education and the educational needs of children to parents in particular.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harris |first1=Rosenberg |title=A Handbook of School Fundraising |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134731299 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fGVmnPZ8AeYC&q=%22Muslim+Educational+Trust%22&pg=PA174 |language=en |date=5 September 2013}}</ref> It is based in London.<ref name="contactus">{{cite web|title=Muslim Educational Trust, ContactUS|url=http://web-eab.wix.com/met#!__page-12|website=Muslim Educational Trust|accessdate=18 February 2017}}</ref> <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|right|Teacher from the Muslim Educational Trust at Belle Vue Boys School, Bradford, UK. --> <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|right|An Islamic class being given in the early 1970s at Lavender Hill Girls School, London, UK. -->
==Schooling== From the early 1970s, the Trust started up Islamic religious lessons for Muslim pupils. Schools in the UK had Christian religious lessons as standard, but pupils were allowed to opt out of these classes. The Trust began giving alternative Islamic lessons for pupils to be held during the time in school that they had Christian based religious lessons. Newham was the first borough to allow the Islamic lessons, along with Hackney, followed by Bradford and other cities outside of London. Approx 20 volunteers taught these classes throughout the 1970's.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://seerah.org/about.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030416164734/http://www.seerah.org/about.html| archive-date = 2003-04-16| title = The Seerah Foundation}} </ref>
==Support== The Trust began supporting efforts to open private Islamic schools in 1974,<ref name="StartOwnSchools">{{Cite web|url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/4wb4A7|title=Muslims say they will start own single-sex schools|date=8 January 1974|pages=2|accessdate=15 September 2022|via=Gale}}</ref> and by 1992, 23 Islamic schools were open, all supported by the Trust. Important leaders in this movement were Ibrahim Hewitt, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens),<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|187316713}} |last1=Pilkington |first1=Edward |title=Islam Opts Out |work=The Guardian |date=10 March 1992 |page=27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|186575421}} |last1=Cunningham |first1=John |title=The double think behind an unholy row |work=The Guardian |date=18 October 1985 |page=15 }}</ref> Afzal Rahman,<ref name="StartOwnSchools"/> and Ghulam Sarwar. In 1991, Sarwar wrote a book, ''British Muslims and Schools'', which focuses on why such schools should exist and why they should receive public funding like other British schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/4wb523 |title=Missing women|first=David|last=Tytler|date=30 September 1991|pages=33|accessdate=15 September 2022|via=Gale}}</ref>
==See also== * National Muslim Education Council
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20220128105910/https://www.muslim-ed-trust.org.uk/ Official Website (Archived)] *[https://madinahcollege.uk/ Islamic Classes In London]
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