Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

Jamie Gilham is an independent historian, UK.

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNote on Quotations and SpellingIntroduction, Jamie Gilham, Independent Historian, UKPart I: Discourse and Representations1: 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 Lives6: Saiyid Mustafa Ben-Yusuf, an Arab Muslim Convert to Christianity in Victorian BritainJamie 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)GlossaryNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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.