PinnedYahya Birt·Mar 3Book Review: M.A.M.A. Sherif, Friendships in the Square: Muslim Activism in Historic London, 1880s to the 1940s (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Book Trust, 2025)…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedYahya Birt·May 23, 2025Hagiography versus History: the future of Quilliam StudiesIn light of a major new collection of primary sources, Yahya Birt argues that scholarship into the life of Abdullah Quilliam and the first…
Yahya Birt·Dec 2, 2024Multiculturalism 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…
Yahya Birt·Sep 8, 2023Barakatullah on Quilliam (1892)Newly translated Urdu sketch from 1892 of Quilliam by the famed Maulana Barakatullah.
Yahya Birt·Jun 7, 2023Britain’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…
Yahya Birt·Jan 19, 2023New 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…
Yahya Birt·Nov 9, 2022On Muslim Minorities — Interview with Islamische Zeitung (October 2022)Interview with Sulaiman Wilms, Editor of Islamische Zeitung, 3rd November 2022…
Yahya Birt·Jul 27, 2022Interview: 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…A response icon5A response icon5
Yahya Birt·Feb 15, 2022My 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…A response icon2A response icon2
Yahya Birt·Feb 1, 2022Another 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…
