Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain

Jamie Gilham is an independent historian, UK.

[This] collection of essays provides fascinating accounts of remarkable historical figures and developments. It interrogates the topic of Islam and Muslims in Victorian Britain from a variety of angles and perspectives and provides the engaged reader with new questions and ways of considering this pressing and complex issue.

• 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