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The Long View (London), July, Vol. 3/No. 4, pp.3-6., 2022
This article comments on the cultural and political engagement of Islamic Neo-traditionalists, sp... more This article comments on the cultural and political engagement of Islamic Neo-traditionalists, specifically Tim Winter and Hamza Yusuf, with the new ethno-nationalism in Euro-America, which is influenced by white nativist ideas.
Immigrants & minorities, May 5, 2022
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, b... more Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu) Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN 1800119828
Islamic Movements of Europe, 2014
Religions, 2020
This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions w... more This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published between 1992 and 2006, partly based on short impromptu interviews done with some who worked on the magazine with Nahdi. In Q-News, Nahdi created the most consequential UK Muslim publication of its day and helped shape how a whole generation of young Muslims saw their identity and faith. He should be remembered alongside Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) and Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931–1996) as among the great journalists-cum-activists that British Islam has produced.
Seleccionar todos Título: Dilemas de autenticidad y pertenencia Autores: Birt, Yahya Revista: Afk... more Seleccionar todos Título: Dilemas de autenticidad y pertenencia Autores: Birt, Yahya Revista: Afkar Ideas, 2010 PRIMAVERA; (25) Página(s): 34-36 ISSN: 16970403. ...
Oxford Scholarship Online
Rediscovered by Islamic converts in the late 1960s and post-war migrants in Liverpool in the 1970... more Rediscovered by Islamic converts in the late 1960s and post-war migrants in Liverpool in the 1970s after he had been largely forgotten, British Muslim interest in Abdullah Quilliam has grown significantly, especially in the last decade. Although not without his contemporary critics, there is a strong hagiographic tendency that puts Quilliam forward as a founder figure in British Islam. Contemporary appropriations of Quilliam center on questions of British Muslim belonging, which is drawn out in debates on racism and effective preaching (da‘wa), and about Islam, politics and patriotism. This chapter argues that, within his overarching role as progenitor, Quilliam’s reimagined afterlives as patriot or rebel, reformer or traditionalist, or community builder or preacher, reveal tensions and developments among British Muslims today.
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2001
Afkar Ideas Revista Trimestral Para El Dialogo Entre El Magreb Espana Y Europa, 2010
Race, Place and Identities, 2009
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2001
Transnational Connections and the Gulf, London: …, 2005
Producing Islamic Knowledge in Western Europe
The Long View (London), July, Vol. 3/No. 4, pp.3-6., 2022
This article comments on the cultural and political engagement of Islamic Neo-traditionalists, sp... more This article comments on the cultural and political engagement of Islamic Neo-traditionalists, specifically Tim Winter and Hamza Yusuf, with the new ethno-nationalism in Euro-America, which is influenced by white nativist ideas.
Immigrants & minorities, May 5, 2022
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, b... more Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu) Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN 1800119828
Islamic Movements of Europe, 2014
Religions, 2020
This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions w... more This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published between 1992 and 2006, partly based on short impromptu interviews done with some who worked on the magazine with Nahdi. In Q-News, Nahdi created the most consequential UK Muslim publication of its day and helped shape how a whole generation of young Muslims saw their identity and faith. He should be remembered alongside Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) and Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931–1996) as among the great journalists-cum-activists that British Islam has produced.
Seleccionar todos Título: Dilemas de autenticidad y pertenencia Autores: Birt, Yahya Revista: Afk... more Seleccionar todos Título: Dilemas de autenticidad y pertenencia Autores: Birt, Yahya Revista: Afkar Ideas, 2010 PRIMAVERA; (25) Página(s): 34-36 ISSN: 16970403. ...
Oxford Scholarship Online
Rediscovered by Islamic converts in the late 1960s and post-war migrants in Liverpool in the 1970... more Rediscovered by Islamic converts in the late 1960s and post-war migrants in Liverpool in the 1970s after he had been largely forgotten, British Muslim interest in Abdullah Quilliam has grown significantly, especially in the last decade. Although not without his contemporary critics, there is a strong hagiographic tendency that puts Quilliam forward as a founder figure in British Islam. Contemporary appropriations of Quilliam center on questions of British Muslim belonging, which is drawn out in debates on racism and effective preaching (da‘wa), and about Islam, politics and patriotism. This chapter argues that, within his overarching role as progenitor, Quilliam’s reimagined afterlives as patriot or rebel, reformer or traditionalist, or community builder or preacher, reveal tensions and developments among British Muslims today.
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2001
Afkar Ideas Revista Trimestral Para El Dialogo Entre El Magreb Espana Y Europa, 2010
Race, Place and Identities, 2009
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2001
Transnational Connections and the Gulf, London: …, 2005
Producing Islamic Knowledge in Western Europe
The Production of Islamic Knowledge in Europe (London: IB Tauris), 2011
Transnational connections and the Arab Gulf, 2005
Academic discussion has long speculated on the nature of the relationship between the Al Sa '... more Academic discussion has long speculated on the nature of the relationship between the Al Sa 'ud and the Wahhabi 'ulama'(religious scholars) in terms of state formation and maintenance, but rather less attention has been given to the implications of that association for the export of Wahhabism abroad. 2 It is possible to see the relationship between Wahhabism and its exterior–political and ideational–in purely instrumental terms. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, early Wahhabi thought rationalized conquest, ...
Muslim Britain: communities under pressure, 2005
European muslims and the secular state, 2005
This opinion piece argues that greater transparency and accounatbility over referrals to Channel,... more This opinion piece argues that greater transparency and accounatbility over referrals to Channel, the mainstay of the UK government's counter-terrorism policy with regard to public bodies, is needed to ensure proper oversight.
An opinion piece that sets a review of a TV documentary on the British jihad (ITV, 15 June 2015) ... more An opinion piece that sets a review of a TV documentary on the British jihad (ITV, 15 June 2015) in a broader context dominant media depictions of two dominant Muslim figures in the post-9/11 era, the "extremist" and the "former", who dramatise a narrative framing that elides multifarious and complex everyday Muslim lives, that depoliticises Muslim agency, and that dehistoricizes the Muslim experience.
An opinion piece that examines the issue of parental consent in relation to referrals to the UK's... more An opinion piece that examines the issue of parental consent in relation to referrals to the UK's counter-terrorism intervention policy, Channel, in schools, which gained statutory status in July 2015 under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015.
An opinion piece that gives four reasons - political, historical, hermeneutic and contextual - wh... more An opinion piece that gives four reasons - political, historical, hermeneutic and contextual - why the history writer Tom Holland's argument that ISIS is normatively Islamic is dangerous and perverse.
This short presentation provides some critical reflections about the refraction of contemporary B... more This short presentation provides some critical reflections about the refraction of contemporary British Muslim histories through the prism of crisis.
This short presentation provides some very preliminary thoughts about the scope and remit of my d... more This short presentation provides some very preliminary thoughts about the scope and remit of my doctoral thesis.
A short presentation setting out an agenda to promote British Muslim community histories through ... more A short presentation setting out an agenda to promote British Muslim community histories through "archival activism", while recognising the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Haseeb Khan (2022): Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, Immigrants & Minorities., 2022
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, b... more Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First
Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by
Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu)
Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN
1800119828