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...
1901
Residence of Abdullah Quilliam's Second Family
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This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in maintained in separate households in Liverpool. The focus here is upon his second household.
The family residence of Mary Ann Lyon Quilliam (1864-1952), who had five children by Abdullah Quilliam: Ethel Mary "Miriam" (1885-1970), Lilian Ayesha (1887-1935), Mohamed Henry (b.1888), Florence Zuleikha (b.1890) and May Habeebah (1897-1908) - this is the third house that they lived in. Mary had met Quilliam while working as a singer at the Liverpool Theatre. She is listed in the 1901 Census as living here with her five children, with Quilliam styling himself as "Henry M. Quilliam, journalist and author". This residence was a five-minute walk to Quilliam's other family household in Fairfield Crescent, where his lawful wife, Hannah, lived with his four children by her. According to one contemporary account, written by the Ottoman journalist Yusuf Samih Asmay, Hannah and Mary could not stand the sight of each other, but nevertheless they would on occasion come together to support Quilliam's work, for instance at the reception for the Crown Prince of Afghanistan, Nasrullah Khan, who visited the mosque in June 1895. A backdated Islamic marriage between Quilliam and Mary was declared to the Ottoman authorities in May 1900, but Mary may never have formally converted to Islam, and it seems that none of her children remained professing Muslims in later life. Officially married to Quilliam in Preston in 1909 after Hannah's death, Mary never lived with Quilliam as a legally married spouse, as he had left her for Edith Miriam Spray, a convert, living under the false identities of Henri Marcel Leon and Edith de Leon. Both Mary and Edith attended Quilliam's funeral in 1932. Mary moved into Quilliam's ancestral family home in 1909 after Hannah's death, where she lived until her death in 1952.
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Yusuf Samih Asmay, Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain's First Mosque Community, eds. Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Munire Zeynab Maksudoglu (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2021), pp.158-9.
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