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Jamie Gilham is an independent historian and biographer in the UK. He is the author of Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950 (2014) and editor of Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West (2017).This is the first major biography of Rowland Allanson-Winn, the Anglo-Irish peer Lord Headley, a civil engineer who converted to Islam in 1913. Jamie Gilham tells the fascinating story of how Headley both played an important part in the institutionalization of Islam in Britain and came to be known throughout the world as a leading British Muslim. Essential reading for those interested in the growth of Islam in the West.
Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
This timely tribute to Headley’s legacy challenges stereotypes about British Islam as a mainly migrant phenomenon.
Clinton Bennett, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Jamie Gilham has brilliantly reconstructed the life of Lord Headley against the background of the history of Muslims in Great Britain in the colonial age. I thought I knew the story well. But in this fascinating journey Jamie Gilham recreates Headley’s riveting and rich historical account which makes the book an essential reading for general readers and specialists.
Amr Ryad, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium
This is the first biography of Lord Headley, who made international headlines in 1913 when he defied convention by publicly converting to Islam. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, this book focuses on Headley's religious beliefs, conversion to Islam, and work as a Muslim leader during and after the First World War.
Lord Headley slipped into obscurity following his death in 1935, but there is growing recognition globally that he is a pivotal figure in the history of Western Islam and Muslim-Christian relations; this book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures of the man and his work, and considers his significance for contemporary understandings of Islam in the Global West.
1. Introduction
2. Early Years, 1855-1874
3. Finding the Way, 1874-1896
4. Imperial Engineer, 1896-1900
5. Troubles, 1900-1912
6. Conversion to Islam, 1913
7. Muslim Baron: The First Decade, 1913-1923
8. Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1923
9. Ambassador for Western Islam, 1923-1930
10. Twilight Years, 1930-1935
11. Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Islam of the Global West is a pioneering series that examines Islamic beliefs, practices, discourses, communities, and institutions that have emerged from ‘the Global West.’ The geographical and intellectual framing of the Global West reflects both the role played by the interactions between people from diverse religions and cultures in the development of Western ideals and institutions in the modern era, and the globalization of these very ideals and institutions.
In creating an intellectual space where works of scholarship on European and North American Muslims enter into conversation with one another, the series promotes the publication of theoretically informed and empirically grounded research in these areas. By bringing the rapidly growing research on Muslims in European and North American societies, ranging from the United States and France to Portugal and Albania, into conversation with the conceptual framing of the Global West, this ambitious series aims to reimagine the modern world and develop new analytical categories and historical narratives that highlight the complex relationships and rivalries that have shaped the multicultural, poly-religious character of Europe and North America, as evidenced, by way of example, in such economically and culturally dynamic urban centres as Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Sarajevo, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam where there is a significant Muslim presence.
Editorial Board
Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, USA
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie University Berlin, Germany
John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Xavier Bougarel, Researcher, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifieque (CNRS), France
Ian Coller, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, USA
Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Mercedes García-Arenal, Research Professor, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Professor in Religious and Theological Studies, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the United Kingdom, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Riva Kastoryano, Senior Research Fellow, Centre de Recherches Internationales, SciencesPo, France
Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University, USA
Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science, USA
Sean McLoughlin, Professor of the Anthropology of Islam, University of Leeds, UK
Jonas Otterbeck, Professor of Islamic Studies, Aga Khan University, UK
Mark Sedgwick, Professor, School of Culture and Society—Arabic and Islamic Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark