IMAN - The UK sister

1. To increase public awareness of the many skills, artistic achievements, and professional roles of Muslim women throughout the world, and in so doing to challenge the widespread, falsely negative images of Muslim women which are perpetuated by the media.

2. To bring together professional as well as amateur artists by holding exhibitions and educational events, and to provide supportive structures for Muslim women artists


3. To promote and preserve the artistic skills and crafts, traditional and contemporary, of Muslim women.

4. To illustrate, through lectures, conferences, and other educational activities, the important role of art in Islamic culture and social life, and to establish its vital influence on this and future Islamic generations.

5. To demonstrate the crucial function and importance of Islamic art as a religious "pointer" (ishara), as a dawa tool, and to promote it as an ambassador for Islam in the western world and other non-Islamic areas.