Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at Coventry University. Funded by the British Academy, she has written about Muslim women's lives in Britain's earliest mosques. Jamie Gilham is a historian of Western Islam whose books include Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950, also published by Hurst, and The British Muslim Convert Lord Headley, 1855–1935.

‘A collection of remarkable and… hidden stories of Muslim women who helped shape the history of Britain.’

Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at Coventry University. Funded by the British Academy, she has written about Muslim women's lives in Britain's earliest mosques. Jamie Gilham is a historian of Western Islam whose books include Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950, also published by Hurst, and The British Muslim Convert Lord Headley, 1855–1935.

‘A collection of remarkable and… hidden stories of Muslim women who helped shape the history of Britain.’

Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at Coventry University. Funded by the British Academy, she has written about Muslim women's lives in Britain's earliest mosques. Jamie Gilham is a historian of Western Islam whose books include Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950, also published by Hurst, and The British Muslim Convert Lord Headley, 1855–1935.

‘A collection of remarkable and… hidden stories of Muslim women who helped shape the history of Britain.’