The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam :
[A5+] Paperback - 268 pages,
Edited by Ron Geaves, and
by Yahya Birt,
Published by Beacon.

Now in Stock May 2023

Description :

The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam brings together the secular and religious poetry of Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) together in a single volume for the first time.
 

Best known as the founder of Britain’s first mosque community, this collection covers his entire four-decade poetic output, and reveals much about his inner spiritual and emotional life, about the private man behind the public figure.


 

Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932), is considered 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, Abdullah Quilliam was a charismatic preacher, lawyer, writer, and community leader.

 

Ron Geaves is a retired professor of religion better known for his academic writing in the study of religion. He remains a visiting professor in the Centre for the Study of Islam in Britain based in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at the University of Cardiff. In 2010 he published Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam (Kube Press) and in 2017 Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West (Hurst). In 2017 he published Rumi Weeds (Beacon Press), his first collected volume of poetry.

 

Yahya Birt is a community historian who has taught at the University of Leeds. He has an M.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles on Islam in Britain and co-edited British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and State (Markfield: Kube, 2016) and Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2021). He lives in West Yorkshire with his family and two cats. He likes walking and being grumpy about the state of the world.

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Approx Dimensions :  13.5 x 16cm.