Yahya Birt

As Britain's first official Shaykh al-Islam, Quilliam is one of the UK's most important, historical Muslim figures stemming from the high-Victorian era. This collection serves to highlight his roles as an imam and c...

British Secularism and Religion Islam, Society and the State provides an in-depth deliberation upon the now unsettled relationship between religion and politics in twenty-first century Britain, with an emphasis upon...

This is the first full biography of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the most significant Muslim personality in nineteenth century Britain. Uniquely ennobled as the sheikh of Islam of the British Isles by the Ottoman...