Victorian muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West
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 obscurity following his death, with the resurgen...
| Résumé: | 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 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 work, leading experts of the religion, history and politics of Islam offer new perspectives and shed fresh light on Quilliam's life and work |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 207 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 0190848472 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190688349.001.0001 |