Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam Paperback

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Islam in Victorian Britain:The Life & Times of Abdullah Quilliam Paperback

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 caliph, Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1893, Quilliam was a charismatic preacher, lawyer, writer, and community leader. He created a remarkable community of Muslims in Victorian Liverpool, which included a substantial number of converts.

About The Authors

Ron Geaves

Ron Geaves was formerly a Professor of the Compartive Study of Religion at Liverpool Hope University and has contributed substanially to the study of British Islam, religion in South Asia and fieldwork in religious studies.

Ron Geaves is to be congratulated for having produced a rigorous and fascinating biography of the "quintessential Englishman", who became a Muslim in late Victorian imperial Britain. Geaves's book is undeniably topical in the light of present-day anxieties concerning the loyalty, identity and citizenship of British Muslims - Professor Humayun Ansari, University of London and author of 'The infidel Within Muslims in Britain since 1800.

Yahya Birt

Yahya Birt is a British-American writer and academic who is currently a doctoral candidate at Leeds University in the UK. He is the son of John Birt, former Director-General of the BBC. A convert to Islam, his academic research is focused on contemporary Islam in general, and British Islam in particular. Birt's commentary has been cited in a number of newspapers, including the Guardian, the Economist, the Intercept, and The Muslim News.The Economist describes Birt as "an influential British Muslim."

Yahya Birt has undertaken a doctoral research on the social and intellectual history of postwar British Muslim activism, c.1960–c.1997. In particular, he is interested in collecting archival materials from the period from periodicals, personal papers, photographs,.