Since the publication of Prof. Ron Geaves’s commendable book, Islam in Victorian Britain, in 2010, in which he noted the existence of “The Mysteries of Moslem Theology”,[1] based on a handwritten chronicle of Quilliam’s earlier life of unknown provenance, Prof. Patrick D. Bowen could not source the article despite searching for it. Years went by and the article appeared to have been lost.
In Q-News, Fuad Nahdi created the most consequential UK Muslim publication of its day and helped shape how a whole generation of young Muslims saw…
An Early Arab View of Liverpool’s Muslims: Al-Ustadh and Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam between Accusation and Exoneration during the Age of British Imperialism
An appeal from Everyday Muslim to Muslims in Britain and Muslims worldwide to share memories, photos and documents of Malcolm X’s visits to Britain…
In pre-First World War London, an Egyptian-born journalist and writer founded a paper to report international struggles against colonialism and racism. Yasmeen Arif discusses…
Finding relevant historical information about people of Black/African/Afro-Caribbean descent in Britain is no easy feat. Add Muslim to the mix and it gets even…
Everyday Muslim’s third annual symposium will aim to explore constructions of Black Muslim identity and heritage in the UK and how the stories of…
‘Why celebrate an event that happened 40 years ago?’ – A valid question and one I have been asked since discussing the World of…
In London in the spring of 1976, Queen Elizabeth II opened the World of Islam Festival, a unique and cultural event that in concept and in scale was…
Currently British Muslims are marginal to the story of the nation. Yahya Birt argues that this can only change for the better if Muslim…