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Jamie Gilham is an independent historian, UK.From the royal family to the Victorian bookshop, from the streets of London to Merseyside and Manchester, Muslims were part of the fabric of 19th century British society. This collection offers a value compendium of the where and when Muslims were to be found in the very recesses of national and imperial life.
Antoinette Burton, Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA
An inspiring collection of essays that engages with varied archives and little-known histories to reveal a fascinating array of individuals engaging with Islam or experiencing Muslim lives in Victorian Britain. The chapters take us from Queen Victoria’s court and Anglo-Ottoman politics to Syrian traders, a dispossessed Nawab of Bengal and Muslim philanthropy on Christmas Day. From this book, we receive an understanding of modern Britain that is at once global, pluralistic, antagonistic, generous and resilient.
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Professor of Global History, University of Sheffield, UK
[A] delightful read containing eleven insightful chapters on an array of distinctive topics. A line up of acclaimed academics who have produced these informative contributions offer further credence to understanding the significance of Islam during the Victorian era in Britain.
- Ruqaiyah Hibell, The Islamic Foundation, The Muslim World Book Review
Jamie Gilham collates the work of leading and emerging scholars of Islam in Britain, Christian-Muslim relations and Victorian Studies to offer fresh perspectives on Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain.
The contributors reveal 19th-century attitudes and beliefs about Islam and Muslims to demonstrate the plurality of approaches and representations of Islam in Britain’s past. Also bringing to life the stories and voices of early Muslim settlers and converts to Islam, this book examines the lived experience of Muslims in the Victorian period. Sources include political and academic writings, literature, travelogues, the press and other forms of popular culture. Intersectional themes include religion and religiosity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, gender, class, citizenship, empire and imperialism, and prejudice, discrimination and resilience.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Quotations and Spelling
Introduction, Jamie Gilham, Independent Historian, UK
Part I: Discourse and Representations
1: The Royal Family’s Attitudes toward Islam and Muslims during the Reign of Queen Victoria,
A. Martin Wainwright (University of Akron, USA)
2: Rival Views on the Eastern Question, Muslims and Islam: William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli and Anglo-Ottoman Relations, Clinton Bennett (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA)
3: Thomas Carlyle, Islam, Empire and After, Geoffrey P. Nash (Independent Scholar, UK)
4: ‘Permission to Go and See the Ancient City’: Women Travellers’ Encounters with Islam in the Nineteenth Century, Anne-Marie Beller and Kerry Featherstone (Loughborough University, UK)
5: Translators, Publishers and Popular Readerships: The Qur’an on the Victorian Bookshelf,
Alexander Bubb (Roehampton University, UK)
Part II: Muslim Lives
6: Saiyid Mustafa Ben-Yusuf, an Arab Muslim Convert to Christianity in Victorian Britain
Jamie Gilham ( Independent Historian, UK)
7: From Arab Millet to British Islam: Syrian Muslims in Victorian Manchester, Riordan Macnamara (University of Paris-Saclay, France)
8: The Last Nawab of Bengal: India and England, 1838-84, Emeritus Professor Lyn Innes (University of Kent, UK)
9: Maulana Muhammad Barakatullah Bhopali in Late-Victorian England, Professor Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
10: Feeding Hungry Christians: The Liverpool Muslim Institute on Christmas Day
Brent Singleton (California State University, USA)
11: Authority and Legitimacy in Victorian Liverpool: Re-evaluating Abdullah Quilliam’s Title of ‘Sheikh-ul-Islam of the British Isles’, Matthew Sharp (Independent Historian, USA)
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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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