Explores how a new generation are redefining what it means to be a Muslim in Britain todayA new generation of...

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the...

8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...

This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in...

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...

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...

This is a Grade I listed building whose interior is built in an exuberant Orientalist style, a mix of Moorish,...

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...

Robert Stanley led the project to build the Victoria Market Hall, just three years after he had been elected as...

After getting married to Emma Meredith at the age of 19, Robert set up a grocers and tea shop with...

Stalybridge Town Hall was built in 1831. It saw two additional extensions during the Victorian period and was one of...

Shortly after stepping down as Mayor of Stalybridge, Robert, Emma, and some of his grown up children moved to the...

Fatima Manji is an award-winning English television broadcaster and journalist as well as Britain's first hijab-wearing newsreader. Born in Peterborough...

Aisha Bewley has been – and continues to be – a world-renowned and accomplished translator of classical Islamic literature. After...

Muhammad Isa Waley is a British editor, translator, and researcher specializing in the literature of Muslim spirituality in Arabic, Persian,...

Ziauddin Sardar is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future...

Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) was the ruler of Mysore, an independent state in southern India. With his father, he was...

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, born on April 14, 1872, in Bombay, British India (present-day Mumbai, India), was a renowned Islamic scholar,...

104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....

Abd Ar Rahman bin Muhammed ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406) is considered the Muslim father of Sociology. His contributions to...

In 1904, the great Bradford Exhibition was held in Lister Park. It was held to inaugurate the newly-built Cartwright Hall,...

Islam in Victorian Liverpool is a unique eyewitness account dating from 1895 of Britain's first mosque community by an Ottoman...

It is extremely important for the younger generation to be aware of the sacrifices made by the early settlers here...

When they came to London many Bangladeshi women became homeworkers, joining a long tradition in the East End. Although it...

Fatima Manji is a British television journalist and newsreader who became Britain's first hijab-wearing TV newsreader in March 2016. Her...

Imam al-Ghazali (1057-1111), honoured with the title of "Hujjatul Islam" or "Proof of Islam," was a renowned Islamic scholar and...