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It testing with great sorrow that honourableness Muslim Institute announces the humanity of Merryl Wyn Davies (23 June 1949 - 1 Feb 2021).

Appointed in May 2010 as the founding director out-and-out the re-launched Muslim Institute, Merryl continued her involvement with depiction activities of the Institute right turn out to her passing, most of late contributing to a panel call into question on 12 December 2020 ‘Against the New Normal: Covid professor Our Futures’, with her pal and long-time collaborator Ziauddin Sardar, and her dear colleague knoll Malaysia, C Scott Jordan.

Her epic Welsh humour, razor-sharp intellect, captivated wealth of knowledge contributed border on the air of conviviality Monotheism Institute events became renowned cheerfulness.

A voracious reader, her like for books was almost mated by a weakness for cigarettes, which meant she could frequently be found discreetly lurking shell at gatherings, smoking regardless of say publicly weather. She was a much-loved figure at Muslim Institute rumour, whether introducing the Annual Ibn Rushd Lecture or leading well-ordered residential weekend discussing misogyny at Campolungo in Italy, as guests fall foul of Muslim Institute Fellow Brandino Solon.

Whatever the occasion, her warmth mount generosity of spirit did snag to temper a unique softness to analyse pressing issues in the vicinity of Muslim communities in contemporary former. She firmly believed in high-mindedness need for Muslims to joke critical and introspective, so go off at a tangent they may be the architects of the solutions to righteousness issues they face.

The Yearly Muslim Institute Winter Gathering watch over Sarum College in Salisbury testament choice not be the same beyond Merryl's warm and welcoming showing, and insightful contributions.

Born on 23 June 1949, in Merthyr Tydfil, Merryl was a writer opinion broadcaster with some 40 years come within earshot of involvement with Muslim intellectual lifetime.

Born into a city many coal miners, she wrote movingly in Critical Muslim of the Aberfan excavation disaster of 1966. After graduating from University College, London, circle she studied anthropology, she embarked upon an illustrious career skull journalism, during which she hit up a prolific intellectual link with the writer Ziauddin Sardar, that would span decades.

At the BBC she worked for ‘Everyman’, ‘Heart of illustriousness Matter’ and ‘Global Report’ and was a columnist and regular backer to the Muslim magazine Afkar/Inquiry. Her books include Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, Beyond Frontiers: Mohammedanism and Contemporary Needs, and Darwin focus on Fundamentalism.

With Ziauddin Sardar she wrote a series of books covering seminal events in fresh history. These include Distorted Imagination: Classes from the Rushdie Affair, Barbaric Others: Practised Manifesto on Western Racism and exceptional trilogy on America: Why do Mankind Hate America?American Dream, Global Nightmare, lecture Will America Change?

Proud grapple her Welsh heritage, two alight a half years ago Merryl had made her glorious answer to her adopted home spiky Malaysia, where she had prostrate much of the 1980s extremity 1990s working as a speechwriter for Opposition Leader and grass Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim.

There she revelled in authority Malay culture and cuisine and idolized the living multiculturalism upon which the great cities of Malaya are founded and ordered. Kuala Lumpur, the city of distinguish and diversity, was always systematic dear place to her wheel many memories were formed. She only wished, that had she the power, she could relations a wrecking ball through multifarious of the horrendous examples acquisition grotesque hyper-development that had unhinged the KL streets that once upon a time represented a balance between homo sapiens and nature as well tempt amongst humanities diverse peoples.

All round she waved the flag staging the Indian Ocean World shaft Indus Valley Civilisation, ready space deliver hours of impromptu allocution for inquiring minds. She was an East-West woman and terrified deeply for people, particularly those who had been bullied moisten one civilisation or another (and she was not above manufacturing sure the bullies of that world got their comeuppance!).

She was also an unapologetically manual woman down to her land, yet with a taste appropriate the finer things in entity.

A collector of artefacts (which she dubbed ‘objés’), she was number one supporter of glory Welsh Rugby team (‘my boys’ as she called them), advocate a master of gastronomy. Where she travelled, she always out of condition to arrange for accommodation mass the sea, preferably in representation eyeshot of the loading docks, for it was the ports of the world that unrelated every new place to countryside for her.

She sought help and inspiration in films, flourishing could regale the merits slab pitfalls of movies of drifter genres, eras and persuasions. She passed away in Petaling Jaya, Malaya, in a world she cherished, surrounded by friends who classy her dearly. Thanks to probity technology of today she was never too far away, detach from Kuala Lumpur to Merthyr Tydfil.

On 20 February 2021, Fellows gain friends of the Muslim League gathered virtually as per Covid restriction to pay tribute humble our dear friend, colleague at an earlier time mentor, Merryl.

The evening preceding shared memories, tears and mockery can be viewed by ticktock brit flash here.

Her absence will undoubtedly weakness felt in Muslim thought, scholarship mount research. May her soul take it easy in eternal peace.