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1 online resource (xvii, 333 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Note on Quotations and Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Britain's First Muslim Peer of the Realm: Henry Stanley and Islam in Victorian Britain -- 2. 'A Witness Shall be Raised out of Every Nation': W.H. Abdullah Quilliam and Islam, 1856-1932 -- 3. 'Upholding the Banner of Islam': The Liverpool Muslim Institute and British Converts, 1887-1908 -- 4. 'Buckling on the Armour of Islam': British Conversions, 1908-1953 -- 5. 'Sending Up a Silent Prayer for Allah': British Muslim Lives, 1908-1953 -- 6. 'Loyal Enemies'? Identities, Allegiances and the Eclipse of British Muslims in Late-Imperial Britain -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- I. Political engagement and loyalties -- II. Decline and fate -- I. Belonging and commitment to Islam -- II. Muslim life in Christian Britain -- I. Indian Muslim missions and conversion -- II. Conversion motifs, motivations and trends, c.1913-53 -- III. Quantity versus quality: missions compared -- I. The Institute -- II. 'Converting the British Nation to Islam': an assessment -- III. Socio-demographic characteristics of British Muslims -- IV. Conversion motifs and motivations -- V. Convert lives -- VI. Fate and legacy -- I. Quilliam, Islam and religious conversion -- II. Defending and propagating Islam in late-Victorian Britain -- III. Political engagement and divided loyalties, 1890-1908 -- IV. 'A Queer Adventure in Double Identity': Patriotism, politics and religion, 1909-32 -- I. Henry Stanley and Islam before 1859 -- II. Conversion to Islam and consequences, 1859-69 -- III. Lord Stanley of Alderley, 'English Mohomedan' in Britain,1869-1903 -- I. Precursors: Barbary 'renegades' -- II. Predecessors: 'nabobs', Orientalists and 'white Mughals' |
| Summary |
"Loyal Enemies uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people from across the range of social classes defied convention by choosing Islam in this period. Through a series of case studies of influential converts and pioneering Muslim communities, Loyal Enemies considers how the culture of Empire and imperialism influenced and affected their conversions and subsequent lives, before examining how they adapted and sustained their faith. Jamie Gilham shows that, although the overall number of converts was small, conversion to Islam aroused hostile reactions locally and nationally. He therefore also probes the roots of antipathy towards Islam and Muslims, identifies their manifestations and explores what conversion entailed socially and culturally. He also considers whether there was any substance to persistent allegations that converts had "divided" loyalties between the British Crown and a Muslim ruler, country or community. Loyal Enemies is a book about the past, but its core themes--about faith and belief, identity, Empire, loyalties and discrimination-- are still salient today"-- Provided by publisher |
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"First account of the history and remarkable lives of British converts to Islam during the heydey of Empire"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Muslim converts from Christianity -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Muslims -- Great Britain -- Biography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Islamic Studies.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Muslim converts from Christianity
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Muslims
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190257194 |
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0190257199 |
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