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Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West
Gilham Jamie
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Description for Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West
Paperback. A timely reconsideration of the life and times of one of the West's most prominent Muslim converts. Editor(s): Gilham, Jamie; Greaves, Ron. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRAX; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 256.
After formally announcing his conversion to Islam in the late 1880s, the Liverpool lawyer William Henry Abdullah Quilliam publicly propagated his new faith and established the first community of Muslim converts in Victorian Britain. Despite decades of relative obscurity following his death, with the resurgence of interest in Muslim heritage in the West since 9/11 Quilliam has achieved iconic status in Britain and beyond as a pivotal figure in the history of Western Islam and Muslim-Christian relations. In this timely book, leading experts of the religion, history and politics of Islam offer new perspectives and shed fresh light on Quilliam's ... Read more
After formally announcing his conversion to Islam in the late 1880s, the Liverpool lawyer William Henry Abdullah Quilliam publicly propagated his new faith and established the first community of Muslim converts in Victorian Britain. Despite decades of relative obscurity following his death, with the resurgence of interest in Muslim heritage in the West since 9/11 Quilliam has achieved iconic status in Britain and beyond as a pivotal figure in the history of Western Islam and Muslim-Christian relations. In this timely book, leading experts of the religion, history and politics of Islam offer new perspectives and shed fresh light on Quilliam's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849047043
SKU
V9781849047043
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Ref
99-50
About Gilham Jamie
Ron Geaves is Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Archaeology and Religion, based in the Centre of the Study of Muslims in Britain at Cardiff University. He is the author of Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam, along with other books on contemporary Islam.
Reviews for Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West
'Victorian Muslim is an admirable work of collective scholarship, for its multiplicity of voices is entirely suitable to the slow exploration of Quilliam, a man for our times.'