PinnedBarakatullah on Quilliam (1892)Newly translated Urdu sketch from 1892 of Quilliam by the famed Maulana Barakatullah.Sep 8, 2023Sep 8, 2023
Multiculturalism at Bay in an Age of Ethnonationalism and NecropoliticsA short response to Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy’s The New Governance of Religious Diversity. Convened by the Manchester Muslim Forum, and…Dec 2Dec 2
Britain’s First Fatwa Research Centre (est. 1981)Among the late Maulana Yusuf Motala’s many achievements is the establishment of a dar al-ifta’ inside the Darul-‘Ulum al-‘Arabiyya…Jun 7, 2023Jun 7, 2023
New Book Out — Our Fatima of Liverpool — Listen to the first chapter…My new biography of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865–1900), the cofounder of England’s first mosque community, coauthored with Maulana Hamid…Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023
On Muslim Minorities — Interview with Islamische Zeitung (October 2022)Interview with Sulaiman Wilms, Editor of Islamische Zeitung, 3rd November 2022…Nov 9, 2022Nov 9, 2022
Interview: Jordan Peterson, White Supremacy, and the Perils of EngagementTranscript of an interview with Muhammad Jalal of the “Thinking Muslim Podcast”, Episode 73, July 2022 (may vary slightly from the…Jul 27, 20225Jul 27, 20225
My forthcoming poetry collection: Pandemic PilgrimageI wrote this collection of 25 poems during December 2021 and January 2022 while visiting God’s Beloved in Medina and performing the…Feb 15, 20222Feb 15, 20222
Another New Book OutI’m pleased to say that Abdullah Quilliam’s poems have been put together and published for the first time, edited by Ron Geaves and me, by…Feb 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022
New Book Out: Islam in Victorian LiverpoolI’m glad to say that our annotated translation of Yusuf Samih Asmay’s unique Ottoman Turkish travelogue about Britain’s first mosque…Jun 24, 20211Jun 24, 20211
A Brown Sahib’s Lament: Ed Husain Among the MinaretsYahya Birt summarizes Ed Husain’s latest diatribe on British Muslims, so that you don’t go through the rigmarole of reading it yourself.Jun 7, 2021Jun 7, 2021
