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- Muslims in Europe, Islam in the United KIngdom, Islamophobia, state-Muslim community relations, Modern Muslim Intellectual Thought, Sociology of islam, and 35 moreContemporary Movements and Trends in Islam, Islamic Contemporary Studies, Islamic Political Thought, Qur'anic Studies, Islamic Studies, Religion and Politics, Identity politics, European integration, Citizenship and Identity, Salafism, Islam in Europe, Salafi-jihadist groups, Counter-terrorism, Muslims in Britain, Imams, Muslim Chaplaincy in Public Sector Institutions, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Islam and Muslims in Poland and wider Europe, Bosnia and Islam, Islam In Russia and the Caucasus, Anthropology of Islam, Islam (Anthropology), Islamic movements (Anthropology Of Religion), Islamic Movements, Political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Islamism, postcolonial literature, cultural studies, Islam and Muslim culture, Community archives, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Decolonial Theory, Islam in Britain, and Warren Cariouedit
- Yahya Birt is a community historian who has taught at the University of Leeds. He holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.edit
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, British History, Afghanistan, Islam in Europe, Pan-Islamism, and 9 moreReligious Syncretism, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Islamism, Islam in Britain, Conversion to Islam, British India, British Muslims, British imperialism Egypt, and William Henry Abdullah Quilliam
This article comments on the cultural and political engagement of Islamic Neo-traditionalists, specifically Tim Winter and Hamza Yusuf, with the new ethno-nationalism in Euro-America, which is influenced by white nativist ideas.
Research Interests: Conservatism, Whiteness Studies, Traditionalism, Islam, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, and 11 moreRight-Wing Movements, Neo-traditionalism, Ethnonationalism, Islamic revival and reform movements, Julius Evola, Salafism, René Guénon, Conversion to Islam, Islam in the West, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Hamza Yusuf
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu) Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162... more
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu) Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN 1800119828
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This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published... more
This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published between 1992 and 2006, partly based on short impromptu interviews done with some who worked on the magazine with Nahdi. In Q-News, Nahdi created the most consequential UK Muslim publication of its day and helped shape how a whole generation of young Muslims saw their identity and faith. He should be remembered alongside Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) and Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931–1996) as among the great journalists-cum-activists that British Islam has produced.
Research Interests: Media and Cultural Studies, British History, Black/African Diaspora, Islamic Contemporary Studies, Islamic Studies, and 15 moreSufism, Religious Social Activism, Islamic History, Indian Ocean World, Islamism, Interfaith Dialogue, European Islam, Religious Studies, Religions, Conversion to Islam, British muslim identity, Islam in UK & Europe and Counter-Terrorism, British Muslims, Hadrami Studies, and Fuad Nahdi
Research Interests: Sociology, Politics, Case Studies, Culture, Racism, and 13 moreMedia, Islam, Community, Ethnicity, War, Tourism, Power, Orientation, Resistance, Methodologies, Street, Globalisation, and Tension
Seleccionar todos Título: Dilemas de autenticidad y pertenencia Autores: Birt, Yahya Revista: Afkar Ideas, 2010 PRIMAVERA; (25) Página(s): 34-36 ISSN: 16970403. ...
Rediscovered by Islamic converts in the late 1960s and post-war migrants in Liverpool in the 1970s after he had been largely forgotten, British Muslim interest in Abdullah Quilliam has grown significantly, especially in the last decade.... more
Rediscovered by Islamic converts in the late 1960s and post-war migrants in Liverpool in the 1970s after he had been largely forgotten, British Muslim interest in Abdullah Quilliam has grown significantly, especially in the last decade. Although not without his contemporary critics, there is a strong hagiographic tendency that puts Quilliam forward as a founder figure in British Islam. Contemporary appropriations of Quilliam center on questions of British Muslim belonging, which is drawn out in debates on racism and effective preaching (da‘wa), and about Islam, politics and patriotism. This chapter argues that, within his overarching role as progenitor, Quilliam’s reimagined afterlives as patriot or rebel, reformer or traditionalist, or community builder or preacher, reveal tensions and developments among British Muslims today.
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Research Interests: Politics, Case Studies, Culture, Racism, Media, and 12 moreIslam, Community, Ethnicity, War, Tourism, Power, Orientation, Resistance, Methodologies, Street, Globalisation, and Tension
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Academic discussion has long speculated on the nature of the relationship between the Al Sa 'ud and the Wahhabi 'ulama'(religious scholars) in terms of state formation and maintenance, but rather less attention has been... more
Academic discussion has long speculated on the nature of the relationship between the Al Sa 'ud and the Wahhabi 'ulama'(religious scholars) in terms of state formation and maintenance, but rather less attention has been given to the implications of that association for the export of Wahhabism abroad. 2 It is possible to see the relationship between Wahhabism and its exterior–political and ideational–in purely instrumental terms. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, early Wahhabi thought rationalized conquest, ...
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This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957-2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published... more
This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957-2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published between 1992 and 2006, partly based on short impromptu interviews done with some who worked on the magazine with Nahdi. In Q-News, Nahdi created the most consequential UK Muslim publication of its day and helped shape how a whole generation of young Muslims saw their identity and faith. He should be remembered alongside Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931-1996) as among the great journalists-cum-activists that British Islam has produced.
Research Interests: Media and Cultural Studies, British History, Black/African Diaspora, Islamic Contemporary Studies, Islamic Studies, and 15 moreSufism, Religious Social Activism, Islamic History, Indian Ocean World, Islamism, Interfaith Dialogue, European Islam, Religious Studies, Conversion to Islam, British muslim identity, Islam in UK & Europe and Counter-Terrorism, Islamic Studies, Ba 'Alawi, British Muslims, Hadrami Studies, and Fuad Nahdi
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... Nomani, Mohammed Manzoor, Meaning and Message of the Traditions, trans. by Mohammed Asif Kidwai and Shah Ebadur Rahman Nishat, 5 vols (Lucknow: Islamic Research and Publications, 1975-1989), I (1975). Qushayri, Abu... more
... Nomani, Mohammed Manzoor, Meaning and Message of the Traditions, trans. by Mohammed Asif Kidwai and Shah Ebadur Rahman Nishat, 5 vols (Lucknow: Islamic Research and Publications, 1975-1989), I (1975). Qushayri, Abu 'l-Qasim al-, Principles of Sufism, trans. ...
... Birmingham, 2008). 13 Shiraz Maher and Martyn Frampton, Choosing Our Friends Wisely: Criteria for Engagement with Muslim groups (London: Policy Exchange, 2009), pp. 7184. 14 Hazel Blears, speech at Policy Exchange, Lond
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This short piece argues that identity politics is partly based on the anxiety created by the inability to engage with the loss of credible universal narratives. In the case of Islam, European colonialism decisively ended its narrative of... more
This short piece argues that identity politics is partly based on the anxiety created by the inability to engage with the loss of credible universal narratives. In the case of Islam, European colonialism decisively ended its narrative of imperial and religious manifest destiny in the nineteenth century, and, for the post-colonial Muslim diaspora in Europe, this tension is intensified by the fact of being a European minority of low, or at least ambiguous, social status. This status anxiety is more acute and prolonged that in the case of Europe’s, which has only really slowly developed in the latter half of the twentieth century with the challenges of decolonisation, the rise of America, the divisions of the Cold War, and now the slow shifting of the centre of the world economy to East Asia.
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This article examines the domestic funding and policing aspects of Prevent. He argues that the British government’s CONTEST strategy needs to stay focused and not compromise its objectives by sowing greater mistrust between the police and... more
This article examines the domestic funding and policing aspects of Prevent. He argues that the British government’s CONTEST strategy needs to stay focused and not compromise its objectives by sowing greater mistrust between the police and Muslim communities in the UK. Democratic oversight must be encouraged, and the government must be careful not to securitise its integration policies.
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This opinion piece argues that greater transparency and accounatbility over referrals to Channel, the mainstay of the UK government's counter-terrorism policy with regard to public bodies, is needed to ensure proper oversight.
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An opinion piece that sets a review of a TV documentary on the British jihad (ITV, 15 June 2015) in a broader context dominant media depictions of two dominant Muslim figures in the post-9/11 era, the "extremist" and the "former", who... more
An opinion piece that sets a review of a TV documentary on the British jihad (ITV, 15 June 2015) in a broader context dominant media depictions of two dominant Muslim figures in the post-9/11 era, the "extremist" and the "former", who dramatise a narrative framing that elides multifarious and complex everyday Muslim lives, that depoliticises Muslim agency, and that dehistoricizes the Muslim experience.
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An opinion piece that examines the issue of parental consent in relation to referrals to the UK's counter-terrorism intervention policy, Channel, in schools, which gained statutory status in July 2015 under the Counter-Terrorism and... more
An opinion piece that examines the issue of parental consent in relation to referrals to the UK's counter-terrorism intervention policy, Channel, in schools, which gained statutory status in July 2015 under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015.
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An opinion piece that gives four reasons - political, historical, hermeneutic and contextual - why the history writer Tom Holland's argument that ISIS is normatively Islamic is dangerous and perverse.
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This short presentation provides some critical reflections about the refraction of contemporary British Muslim histories through the prism of crisis.
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This short presentation provides some very preliminary thoughts about the scope and remit of my doctoral thesis.
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A short presentation setting out an agenda to promote British Muslim community histories through "archival activism", while recognising the opportunities and challenges ahead.
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Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu) Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162... more
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First
Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by
Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu)
Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN
1800119828
Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by
Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu)
Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN
1800119828