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Quilliam left Liverpool in 1908 in advance of being struck off as a solicitor and his son disposed of the property that had been used as a mosque and Islamic centre and the Muslim community in Liverpool dispersed. Brougham Terrace became home to the Liverpool Register Office until 2000. The Abdullah Quilliam Society was formed in 1996.
William Henry Quilliam (10 April 1856 [1] [2] [3] – 23 April 1932), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, was a 19th-century British convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre, and Britain's oldest Muslim organization, the Association of British Muslims.
A second mosque in Liverpool, the Abdullah Quilliam, which describes itself as Britain's first, has temporarily closed due to the violence, which was fuelled by a false narrative spread online ...
The Association of British Muslims began in Liverpool, England as the English Islamic Association, founded in 1889 by Abdullah Quilliam, [1] a 19th-century convert to Islam who opened one of England's first mosques, the Liverpool Muslim Institute, during the same year, [2] at about the same time that the Shah Jahan Mosque was built.
1893 to 1908. The Crescent 30 January 1901 vol. 16 no. 420. The Crescent - a weekly record of Islam in England [1] was originally published weekly in Liverpool from 1893. As such, it can claim to be oldest and first regular publication reflecting and serving the early convert [2] and Muslim community within the British Isles, although its readership quickly grew via subscription to a global ...
After his conversion, he was appointed by his friend, William Abdullah Quilliam, Shaykh al-Islām of the British Isles, to serve as the vice-president of the Liverpool Muslim Institute, arguably the first mosque in the United Kingdom.
Take a look at the entry on John Quilliam: - It is claimed that William Abdullah Quilliam, the founder of England's first mosque was a descendant of Captain Quilliam. However, Mrs M A Watterson (nee Annie Quirk) in her book People and Places published in 1956 - noted that "John Quilliam's family farmed at Arbory" and that; "Captain Quilliam had ...
A Janaza service in memory of the deceased was held at the Liverpool Mosque, and was conducted by His Honour Abdulla Quilliam Effendi, Sheikh-ul Islam of the British Isles." According to Nancy Mitford , at the funeral, his brother turned to the new Lord Stanley, who had removed his hat out of respect, and snapped "Not your hat, you fool, your ...