Liverpool Muslim Institute

Riordan Macnamara, Medium, “At our Allah’s blest abode”: Liturgical Adaptations at the Liverpool Muslim Institute (1887–1908), 16 June 2023

"Did William Quilliam pose a threat as a syncretistic innovator with his adaptations to a Western frame, turning English people away from Christianity and its mission on one side and the Islamic world from Sunni Islam’s orthodoxy on the other?" (tip: Yahya Birt)

Fatima Cates

BBC News, Fatima Cates: Victorian woman who helped set up UK's first mosque honoured "Born Francess Elizabeth Murray, she is believed to be the first woman to convert to Islam on British soil when she became a Muslim in 1887." Also see Hamid Mahmood and Yahya Birt, Beacon Books, Our Fatima of Liverpool: The Story of Fatima Cates, the Victorian woman who helped found British Islam

New and Noted: Islam in Victorian Liverpool

Out next month: I haven't seen it yet, but it looks interesting. Details: "The history of Abdullah Quilliam’s activities as the leader of Liverpool Muslim Institute from 1887 to World War One provides a rich laboratory to understand the formative period of modern Islamic thought and the long-lasting geopolitical legacies of the Ottoman and British imperial relationship in shaping contemporary Muslim political identities. Scholars have been fascinated by the extraordinary success of Liverpool’s convert Muslim community and Quilliam's personal charisma in establishing transnational intellectual links with Muslims across the world, the support they received from Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid, and the unprecedented impact they had on contesting the racialization of Islam in the metropole of the British Empire. By translating and publishing an Ottoman-Egyptian intellectual’s critique of this community, Birt, Macnamara and Maksudoğlu shed new light and insight on the global politics of pan-Islamic thought in the high age of imperialism. With great attention to details of personalities, events and conflicts within and around the small Liverpool Muslim Institute, this book provides an excellent example of microhistory that informs, challenges and revises our big narratives of caliphate diplomacy, pan-Islamic solidarity and imperial politics. This annotated translation of Yusuf Samih Asmay’s critical account of “Islam in Victorian Liverpool” is presented with an authoritative scholarly introduction, and should be a required primary text on both graduate and undergraduate courses on imperial Muslim thought and politics."

Book page

Mo Salah chant

In respect of Mo Salah of Liverpool, out came this chant (via Ilm Channel)

UK Muslims Find their Indigenous Voice in Hymns, Pantomimes

Lauren Booth, aboutislam.net, UK Muslims Find their Indigenous Voice in Hymns, Pantomimes "Crossed legged on the floor, my ears navigate the curious strains of a Manx (Isle of Man) folk tune, reworded to praise Allah, sung by women with Scouse accents."

Radicalisation

Daily Mail, British Muslim convert was radicalised by ISIS videos online "Jurors were told Watson's encrypted chats with undercover agents 'reveal the extent of his hatred for Western society and his avowed intent to take part in terrorist activity'.
"On his phone, police found books including 'The Path to the Land of Battle' by an Al Qaeda figure, '39 Ways to Participate and Serve in Jihad', and copies of the IS magazine Dabiq."

Modern Muslims? Identities, Tradition and Change

Symposium: Modern Muslims? Identities, Tradition and Change

Venue: Rathbone Lecture Theatre, Eleanor Rathbone Building, off Myrtle Street, Liverpool

9 June 2010 1-5 pm

Online info from the University of Liverpool (suggest you check with organisers for details).

Sessions to include

Ron Geaves: Negotiating Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis of Loyalties, Identities, and Citizenship Models Amongst British Muslims

Phillip Lewis: Hamlet Without the Prince - Whatever
Happened to the 'ulama in the Study of Muslims in Britain?

Seán Mcloughlin: Towards a Cosmopolitan Islamism? Generation, Culture, Class and UK Reformism in Transition

Also plenary discussions.

I received this info at short notice - it sounds like a good event.