Full video of the memorial.
Speakers in order:
To go to a speaker click the timecode.
0.00 -Introduction – emcee Hassan Mahamdallie (Director, Muslim Institute)
1:30 – Yusuf Khan (grandson)
3:13 – Inaya Rahman & Sama Siddiqui (granddaughters)
4:18– Asim Siddiqui (son)
14:07 – Talat Siddiqui (wife, mother, grandmother)
17:39 – Zayan Siddiqui (grandson)
19:05 – Matin Khan (Chair, Halal Food Authority)
31:29 – C Scott Jordan (Biographer)
36:57 – Ziauddin Sardar (co-founder, Muslim Institute)
45:57 – Baroness Shaista Gohir OBE ((Muslim Women’s Network)-read by Shenaz Bunglawala
50:24 – Anas Altikriti (Muslim Association of Britain founder) -read by Eesa Yaqoob
55:57 – Humera Khan (co-founder, An-Nisa Society)
1:02:22 – Professor Musharraf Hussein OBE (Karimia Institute CEO)
1:11:07 – Dr Jenny Taylor (author & journalist)
1:17:51 – Amjad Mirza Hussein (Muslim Institute in the north)
1:23:41 – Dr Rabia Malik (Fmr chair City Circle)
1:30:01 – Imam Sardar Ahmed Qadri (HFA Board of Ulema)
1:36:14 – Ehsan Bari BEM (Founder of the Open Kitchen/Halal Food Foundation trustee)
1:39:49 – Aizaz Ahmed (carer Dr Siddiqui)
1:42:42 – Tehmina Kazi (founding director, British Muslims for Social Democracy)
1:45:47 – Shenaz Minhas
1:49:43 – Naomi Foyle (Critical Muslim)
1:54:50 – Dr Iqbal Asaria (Muslim Institute fellow)
2:01:57 – Professor Iftikhar Malik (Muslim Institute fellow)
2:09:15 – Saqib Mohammed (fmr chair HFA)
2:14:26 – Mufti Barkatulla (chair, Muslim Institute/HFA board of Ulema).
Over 300 people gathered in Kenton Hall, north London, on Sunday 31 May, to memorialise and celebrate the life of the highly regarded thinker and activist Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (1939-2026). The wide diversity of speakers who spoke warmly of the way he had worked with them and touched their lives demonstrated the huge impact he had on the lives of Muslims and wider British society.
An online review of the gathering can be found here
You can view the full announcement of Dr Siddiqui’s passing here
Guardian obituary. Download here or click here
Obituary of Dr Siddiqui by his son Asim in Muslim News. Click here
Tribute to Dr Siddiqui in Hyphen news. Click here
The Biography ‘A Very British Muslim Activist: The life of Ghayasuddin Siddiqui’ by C Scott Jordan can be purchased here
Photos by Rehan Jamil
Video by Robert Hoang
