The Sad Departure of Ayyub Malik

摘要

It is going to be more than a year now that one of the main founders of GBER, co-editor Ayub Malik passed away on 27 November 2007. As the last two editorials were already written, I did not have any opportunity to disclose this sad news to our readers earlier. However, 1 am sure by now many of you have to come to know about Ayyub either through his final journey to the Central Mosque and Botley cemetery in Oxford or his final send-off congregation at Wolfson College. Because of his sudden departure, many relatives, colleagues and friends are, like me, having difficulties coming to terms with Ayyub's sad demise and his tributes and memorial services are cropping up every now and then over the last year (including a Bon Journal entry on 3 January 2008) and is still continuing.