This book brings together the work of sixteen leading and emerging scholars of Islam in Britain, Western Islam and the history of Christian-Muslim relations 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 to Islam and Muslims in Britain's past in politics, academia, literature, the press and other forms of popular culture. They also bring to life the stories and voices of early Muslim settlers and converts to Islam to assess their experiences as Muslims in the Victorian period. Cross-cutting themes include religion and religiosity, 'race' and ethnicity, gender, class, citizenship, empire and imperialism, and prejudice, discrimination and resilience.
Revealing the stories and experiences of Muslims in the past and their contributions to history is essential to build a full picture of Muslim life in Britain and the growth of multicultural society as it has developed since the 19th century.
Recenzijos
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 Victorias 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 *
Daugiau informacijos
Brings together sixteen scholars of Islam in the West to offer new insights about attitudes regarding Islam and Muslims as well as Muslim experiences in Victorian Britain.
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
Jamie Gilham is an independent historian, UK.
