This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in...
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Abdullah Quilliam's Liverpool
This is collection of places in Liverpool related to the life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the founder of Britain's first attested mosque community in 1887, covering his multiple roles as a religious leader, as a lawyer, as a journalist, as a trade unionist and political activist, as well as his personal life.
8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...
Built by the Quilliam Family, four generations lived in this house from the 1870s to the 1950s. Includes some biographical...
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A philanthropic body under the Poor Law Reform Act of 1832. Built workhouses, housing, schools and hospitals, including the famous...
The Medina Home for Children was the first orphanage founded by Muslims in the UK, and was established in 1896....
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (5 January 1865-29 October 1900) was probably the first woman to convert to Islam in Merseyside, who...
This was the residence of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900), as listed in the 1891 Census, among the first women to...
This was the site of the first Muslim prayer hall in the UK, which was formally established as the Liverpool...
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900) lived at "Granada", Victoria Road, in the town of West Kirby on the western side of...
The first location of the printing offices of the first Muslim periodical published in Britain, the weekly Crescent (1893-1908), the...
The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932)...
The chambers of Quilliam and Sons, headed by a convert to Islam, the lawyer and journalist, William Henry Abdullah Quilliam...
One nineteenth century couple are an early example of an intercultural Muslim marriage. They were Ali and Amy Mokaiesh who...
Mustapha Karsa (pictured circa 1900) was born in Damascus in around 1848 to a wealthy landowning family. In 1880-1, Karsa...
Abdullah Ydlibi [Idlibi] (c.1820-85) came from a family of Arab notables in administration, politics and trade, with branches in Damascus...
Yahya Parkinson (1874-1918), Scottish Muslim poet, essayist, and critic, was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, of Irish descent. Born John...
104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....
Islam in Victorian Liverpool - An Ottoman account of Britain's first mosque community
Publication and ArticlesIslam in Victorian Liverpool is a unique eyewitness account dating from 1895 of Britain's first mosque community by an Ottoman...
1896 - 29 October 1900
Fatima Elizabeth Cates' (1865-1900) final home
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900) lived at "Granada", Victoria Road, in the town of West Kirby on the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, with her son, Hubert Haleem (1896-1968) from 1896 until her death at the age of 35. She supported herself by keeping the property as a boarding house and letting furnished apartments. She was unwell in the last two years of her life, and was no longer a regular visitor to the Liverpool Muslim Institute, now some twenty miles distant, but in this period she did paint a vase, decorating it with flowers and verses from the Quran, which she presented to the Institute, where it was displayed on the Institute's stage.
Although at the time of her death it was claimed that Hubert Haleem was the son of her late husband, Hubert Henry Cates (1856-95), this was an impossibility as he was born seventeen months after his father's death at sea in May 1896. Circumstantial evidence points strongly to Abdullah Quilliam being his father, having taken Fatima as a secret, third wife. After Fatima's death, Quilliam became Hulbert Haleem's guardian, and he was an equal beneficiary in Quilliam's will along with all his other surviving children. The attached picture shows the similarities between father and son: Hubert on the left in his mid-twenties and Quilliam on the right in his mid-thirties.
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H. Mahmood and Y. Birt, Our Fatima of Liverpool (Oldham: Beacon Books, 2023).
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