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Actually the subject is wrong; I think all REVERTS make history....But I am sure that you know what I mean...
After my discussions with Br Mabsoot & Sr Hoorul Ain (can't remeber how she spells her name) I thought of posting something for the Brothers/Sisters who are Masha’Allah enjoying the Jermaine Jackson story & are into famous/historical reverts.
Enjoy & feel free to add more to this list....If I get time I will add more as well.
Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam (1851-1932) wrote books, plays, and novels, as well as translating texts from Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He was also among the most respected Muslim poets of his generation, writing in both Manx and English. His style is redolent of Tennyson and Wordsworth, with occasional shades of Emily Dickinson, an important influence on British Muslim verse in the late Victorian period.
Yahya-En-Nasr (John) Parkinson (1874-1918) was born of Irish descent in Kilwinning, Ayrshire. His parents died in his infancy, and he lived his entire life in the home of his grandparents, whom he supported by his work in the factory of the Busby Spinning Company. As well as his column in the local newspaper, which appeared under the name of ‘Ingomar’, Parkinson published several books, including Essays on Islamic Philosophy, and his collection of poems, Lays of Love and War, which deal with romance and Jihad in the futuwwa tradition.
Amherst Tyssen (1843-1930), a scion of a well-known baronial family, was a solicitor as well as a Muslim poet and author. His books include The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, and The Law of Charitable Bequests.
Death of Sister Fatima Elizabeth Cates Sister Fatima Elizabeth Coates
It is our melancholy duty to announce the somewhat sudden demise of one who took a very prominent position in the early propaganda of the Islamic cause in England, namely, our Sister Fatima Elizabeth Coates. It will probably be within the recollection of those who have studied the rise and progress of Islam in England that the first converts were obtained by means of public lectures, which were delivered by Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam, and it was by this means that our late sister became connected with and converted to the Faith. In the spring of 1887 the Sheikh gave a lecture under the auspices of a a Society called the ‘Liverpool Temperance League,’ at Vernon Hall, Liverpool, and through that address secured his first convert – Bro. J. Ali Hamilton. On the following Wednesday the Sheikh gave the same discourse, under the auspices of the Birkenhead Workingmen’s Temperance Association, in the Queen’s Hall, Birkenhead, and among his audience was a young lady who was officially connected with the society named, and also with the Good Templar Order in Cheshire. By a happy fortune Bro. Ali Hamilton was also amongst the audience, and was seated next to the lady in question. During the progress of the lecture the lady evinced the greatest interest in what the speaker was saying, and, whilst the lecturer was being heartily applauded at the conclusion of his address, she happened to turn to Bro. Ali Hamilton and remark, ‘I never knew that Muhammadans were teetotallers. I should like to know something more about their religion.’ Bro. Ali Hamilton, with all the ardour of a new convert, commenced to explain Islam to her, and begged of her to speak to the Sheikh at the close of the meeting, and ask him for further particulars. This she did, and in order to explain Islam fully, the Sheikh lent her his Koran and wrote a short explanatory treatise for her with reference to the Faith. His letters to her were afterwards extended into a lecture, and subsequently published in book form, and issued under the title of ‘The Faith of Islam,’
Al-Hajj ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Ali CBE (1872-1953)
Political Activist, Scholar and Translator of the Qur’an
The entry in the 1948 edition of Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage says of ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Ali CBE: “Son of the Late Khan Bahadur Yusuf ‘Ali; b. 1872; ed. at Bombay Univ. (BA 1891), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge (BA and LLB 1895, MA and LLM 1901); Bar. Lincoln’s Inn 1896; formerly Magistrate and Collector, United Provinces, India; acted as Dist. and Sessions Judge and as Under-Sec. and Dep. Sec. to Govt. of India; was on War Deputation to Sweden, Norway and Denmark 1918, Revenue Min., Hyderabad State 1921-2, and Principal of Islamia Coll., Lahore 1925-7, and again 1935-7; Delegate to League of Nations 1928; a Member of Punjab Univ. Enquiry Committee 1932-3, and Chm. of Punjab Art Circle 1936-7; Vice-Pres. World Congress of Faiths 1937: m. 1921, Masuma Gertrude Mawbey; cr. CBE (Civil) 1917. 3 Mansel Road, Wimbledon, SW19.”
Al-Hajj Hedley (Mahmoud Mobarek) Churchward (d.1929)Painter, Sketcher and Designer of Sets
Born in Aldershot, Hedley Churchward came from one of England’s most prestigious families. They had owned England’s second-oldest house, which dated back some 700 years at the time. His childhood and formative years spent mixing with his father’s eclectic circle of friends and acquaintances meant that he had an exposure to all kinds of people from an early age. He spent some of his time at the Court of Queen Victoria, and most likely heard tales of the Orient and the Empire. He may even have come across a certain ‘Abdul Karim, Queen Victoria’s famous “munshi”.
He was educated at Kilburn College, where he “shared lollipops with the sons of South American presidents, of Indian generals, of big-game hunters, Polar explorers and professional empire builders” (Eric Rosenthal, From Drury Lane to Mecca).
Marmaduke (Muhammad) Pickthall (1875-1936)
Writer, Novelist, Linguist and Translator of the Qur’an
Marmaduke Pickthall, as he then was, was indeed a child of London. After the death of his father, his mother moved with him and his brother to 97 Warwick Gardens, Kensington where she attempted to bring them up single-handedly.
Due to a childhood illness, he often had difficulties getting to grips with his school life and failed to reap the benefits of what would otherwise have been a very elite education. He spent a short time at one of London’s top public schools, Harrow, but was not happy there.
His numeracy problems, induced by his illness, prevented him from pursuing a number of careers in both the Army and the Consular services. His mother, however, realising that languages were very much his strength, took him to Europe instead where he managed to perfect his French, and also developed a good grasp of Italian. This was not enough to gain him entry into the Levant Consular Service even though he came first in all of the language papers (which included in those days, Latin and English and four other modern languages).
William WilliamsonThe Anglo-Muslim community has produced many stormy petrels over the centuries. Religious dissidents, adventurers, romancers, scholar-pilgrims – all have enriched the diverse and colourful story that is British Islam.; Few, however, lived such adventurous lives as the celebrated Hajji Abdullah Fadhil al-Zubayr, born William Williamson, remembered even today in the Gulf and Iraq, where his many descendents still retell his exploits.
Williamson was born in Bristol in 1872, and when still a boy demonstrated a rebellious nature that sat easily with a passionate hatred of injustice. While a pupil at Clifton School he repeatedly courted both danger and the ire of headmasters by climbing the famous Clifton suspension bridge which soars over the Avon gorge. Beaten regularly by his father, he was overjoyed when an uncle found him a place on a tea-clipper bound for Australia. The family’s hope was that the rigours of shipboard life would soon cause the thirteen-year old to pine for the comparative comforts of a boarding school. But although the new ship’s boy was flogged and regularly ‘mastheaded’ for his lubber’s clumsiness in Biscay gales, he resolved never to return.
Peter Lyall,
the Scotsman who became an admiral in the Ottoman navy
Benjamin Bishop,
His Majesty’s consul in Cairo who turned Muslim and mysteriously disappeared
Lord Headley
the peer;
Lady Evelyn Cobbold
the explorer and pilgrim to Mecca;
Mubarak Churchward,
the stage-painter and friend of Lily Langtry;
the anonymous Scotsman
who became governor of Madina;
Ward the PirateWere they pirates, or were they warriors for Islam? For centuries, historians have debated the significance of one of the most stirring episodes in the history of Britain’s Muslim minority. Men such as Captain John Ward of Kent astounded their compatriots by proudly adopting Islam to fight the Inquisition and the expansionist powers of Europe. Contemporaries called such men ‘corsairs’; they themselves considered themselves mujahidin. Some were among the most pious Muslims this country has yet produced. Others were famous drunkards and lechers.
Ward and his likes were described by the adventurer John Smith. Later to be Disneyfied thanks to his romance with Princess Pocahontas, Smith was one English traveller who saw these Muslims at first hand, having spent some years in the Ottoman army before sailing to New England. He wrote a book, the True Travels and Adventures, to describe the European Muslims who were fighting for the Crescent against the Cross. Leading the list were men of Holland and England, who, disgusted by religious wars in their own countries, and unpersuaded by Trinities and Vicarious Atonements, ‘took the Turbant of the Turke’. ‘Because they grew hateful to all Christian princes,’ Smith observed, ‘they retired to Barbary.’
Actually the subject is wrong; I think all REVERTS make history....But I am sure that you know what I mean...
After my discussions with Br Mabsoot & Sr Hoorul Ain (can't remeber how she spells her name) I thought of posting something for the Brothers/Sisters who are Masha’Allah enjoying the Jermaine Jackson story & are into famous/historical reverts.
Enjoy & feel free to add more to this list....If I get time I will add more as well.
Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam (1851-1932) wrote books, plays, and novels, as well as translating texts from Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He was also among the most respected Muslim poets of his generation, writing in both Manx and English. His style is redolent of Tennyson and Wordsworth, with occasional shades of Emily Dickinson, an important influence on British Muslim verse in the late Victorian period.
Yahya-En-Nasr (John) Parkinson (1874-1918) was born of Irish descent in Kilwinning, Ayrshire. His parents died in his infancy, and he lived his entire life in the home of his grandparents, whom he supported by his work in the factory of the Busby Spinning Company. As well as his column in the local newspaper, which appeared under the name of ‘Ingomar’, Parkinson published several books, including Essays on Islamic Philosophy, and his collection of poems, Lays of Love and War, which deal with romance and Jihad in the futuwwa tradition.
Amherst Tyssen (1843-1930), a scion of a well-known baronial family, was a solicitor as well as a Muslim poet and author. His books include The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, and The Law of Charitable Bequests.
Death of Sister Fatima Elizabeth Cates Sister Fatima Elizabeth Coates
It is our melancholy duty to announce the somewhat sudden demise of one who took a very prominent position in the early propaganda of the Islamic cause in England, namely, our Sister Fatima Elizabeth Coates. It will probably be within the recollection of those who have studied the rise and progress of Islam in England that the first converts were obtained by means of public lectures, which were delivered by Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam, and it was by this means that our late sister became connected with and converted to the Faith. In the spring of 1887 the Sheikh gave a lecture under the auspices of a a Society called the ‘Liverpool Temperance League,’ at Vernon Hall, Liverpool, and through that address secured his first convert – Bro. J. Ali Hamilton. On the following Wednesday the Sheikh gave the same discourse, under the auspices of the Birkenhead Workingmen’s Temperance Association, in the Queen’s Hall, Birkenhead, and among his audience was a young lady who was officially connected with the society named, and also with the Good Templar Order in Cheshire. By a happy fortune Bro. Ali Hamilton was also amongst the audience, and was seated next to the lady in question. During the progress of the lecture the lady evinced the greatest interest in what the speaker was saying, and, whilst the lecturer was being heartily applauded at the conclusion of his address, she happened to turn to Bro. Ali Hamilton and remark, ‘I never knew that Muhammadans were teetotallers. I should like to know something more about their religion.’ Bro. Ali Hamilton, with all the ardour of a new convert, commenced to explain Islam to her, and begged of her to speak to the Sheikh at the close of the meeting, and ask him for further particulars. This she did, and in order to explain Islam fully, the Sheikh lent her his Koran and wrote a short explanatory treatise for her with reference to the Faith. His letters to her were afterwards extended into a lecture, and subsequently published in book form, and issued under the title of ‘The Faith of Islam,’
Al-Hajj ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Ali CBE (1872-1953)
Political Activist, Scholar and Translator of the Qur’an
The entry in the 1948 edition of Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage says of ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Ali CBE: “Son of the Late Khan Bahadur Yusuf ‘Ali; b. 1872; ed. at Bombay Univ. (BA 1891), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge (BA and LLB 1895, MA and LLM 1901); Bar. Lincoln’s Inn 1896; formerly Magistrate and Collector, United Provinces, India; acted as Dist. and Sessions Judge and as Under-Sec. and Dep. Sec. to Govt. of India; was on War Deputation to Sweden, Norway and Denmark 1918, Revenue Min., Hyderabad State 1921-2, and Principal of Islamia Coll., Lahore 1925-7, and again 1935-7; Delegate to League of Nations 1928; a Member of Punjab Univ. Enquiry Committee 1932-3, and Chm. of Punjab Art Circle 1936-7; Vice-Pres. World Congress of Faiths 1937: m. 1921, Masuma Gertrude Mawbey; cr. CBE (Civil) 1917. 3 Mansel Road, Wimbledon, SW19.”
Al-Hajj Hedley (Mahmoud Mobarek) Churchward (d.1929)Painter, Sketcher and Designer of Sets
Born in Aldershot, Hedley Churchward came from one of England’s most prestigious families. They had owned England’s second-oldest house, which dated back some 700 years at the time. His childhood and formative years spent mixing with his father’s eclectic circle of friends and acquaintances meant that he had an exposure to all kinds of people from an early age. He spent some of his time at the Court of Queen Victoria, and most likely heard tales of the Orient and the Empire. He may even have come across a certain ‘Abdul Karim, Queen Victoria’s famous “munshi”.
He was educated at Kilburn College, where he “shared lollipops with the sons of South American presidents, of Indian generals, of big-game hunters, Polar explorers and professional empire builders” (Eric Rosenthal, From Drury Lane to Mecca).
Marmaduke (Muhammad) Pickthall (1875-1936)
Writer, Novelist, Linguist and Translator of the Qur’an
Marmaduke Pickthall, as he then was, was indeed a child of London. After the death of his father, his mother moved with him and his brother to 97 Warwick Gardens, Kensington where she attempted to bring them up single-handedly.
Due to a childhood illness, he often had difficulties getting to grips with his school life and failed to reap the benefits of what would otherwise have been a very elite education. He spent a short time at one of London’s top public schools, Harrow, but was not happy there.
His numeracy problems, induced by his illness, prevented him from pursuing a number of careers in both the Army and the Consular services. His mother, however, realising that languages were very much his strength, took him to Europe instead where he managed to perfect his French, and also developed a good grasp of Italian. This was not enough to gain him entry into the Levant Consular Service even though he came first in all of the language papers (which included in those days, Latin and English and four other modern languages).
William WilliamsonThe Anglo-Muslim community has produced many stormy petrels over the centuries. Religious dissidents, adventurers, romancers, scholar-pilgrims – all have enriched the diverse and colourful story that is British Islam.; Few, however, lived such adventurous lives as the celebrated Hajji Abdullah Fadhil al-Zubayr, born William Williamson, remembered even today in the Gulf and Iraq, where his many descendents still retell his exploits.
Williamson was born in Bristol in 1872, and when still a boy demonstrated a rebellious nature that sat easily with a passionate hatred of injustice. While a pupil at Clifton School he repeatedly courted both danger and the ire of headmasters by climbing the famous Clifton suspension bridge which soars over the Avon gorge. Beaten regularly by his father, he was overjoyed when an uncle found him a place on a tea-clipper bound for Australia. The family’s hope was that the rigours of shipboard life would soon cause the thirteen-year old to pine for the comparative comforts of a boarding school. But although the new ship’s boy was flogged and regularly ‘mastheaded’ for his lubber’s clumsiness in Biscay gales, he resolved never to return.
Peter Lyall,
the Scotsman who became an admiral in the Ottoman navy
Benjamin Bishop,
His Majesty’s consul in Cairo who turned Muslim and mysteriously disappeared
Lord Headley
the peer;
Lady Evelyn Cobbold
the explorer and pilgrim to Mecca;
Mubarak Churchward,
the stage-painter and friend of Lily Langtry;
the anonymous Scotsman
who became governor of Madina;
Ward the PirateWere they pirates, or were they warriors for Islam? For centuries, historians have debated the significance of one of the most stirring episodes in the history of Britain’s Muslim minority. Men such as Captain John Ward of Kent astounded their compatriots by proudly adopting Islam to fight the Inquisition and the expansionist powers of Europe. Contemporaries called such men ‘corsairs’; they themselves considered themselves mujahidin. Some were among the most pious Muslims this country has yet produced. Others were famous drunkards and lechers.
Ward and his likes were described by the adventurer John Smith. Later to be Disneyfied thanks to his romance with Princess Pocahontas, Smith was one English traveller who saw these Muslims at first hand, having spent some years in the Ottoman army before sailing to New England. He wrote a book, the True Travels and Adventures, to describe the European Muslims who were fighting for the Crescent against the Cross. Leading the list were men of Holland and England, who, disgusted by religious wars in their own countries, and unpersuaded by Trinities and Vicarious Atonements, ‘took the Turbant of the Turke’. ‘Because they grew hateful to all Christian princes,’ Smith observed, ‘they retired to Barbary.’
