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Dusé Mohamed Ali: The Black Muslim editor whose paper covered the world

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In pre-First World War London, an Egyptian-born journalist and writer founded a paper to report international struggles against colonialism and racism. Yasmeen Arif discusses the impact of Dusé Mohamed Ali, founder of the African Times and Orient Review.

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Finding and Researching Historical Figures and Events

Finding relevant historical information about people of Black/African/Afro-Caribbean descent in Britain is no easy feat. Add Muslim to the mix and it gets even…

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An Exploration of Black Muslims in British History and Heritage

Everyday Muslim’s third annual symposium will aim to explore constructions of Black Muslim identity and heritage in the UK and how the stories of…

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Celebrating the Past and ‘What Matters’ in Documenting British Muslim Heritage

‘Why celebrate an event that happened 40 years ago?’ – A valid question and one I have been asked since discussing the World of…

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What was the World of Islam Festival?

In London in the spring of 1976, Queen Elizabeth II opened the World of Islam Festival, a unique and cultural event that in concept and in scale was…

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Telling the Story of How British Muslims Are Part of the Nation’s History

Currently British Muslims are marginal to the story of the nation. Yahya Birt argues that this can only change for the better if Muslim…

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Aspiring Halal Hubs

An interesting trend is developing in the halal sector: regional hubs are developing in places that have some local demand but not the size…

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Telling or Censoring Our British Muslim Stories?

Can the moral panic about Islam in Britain today affect how we tell our own British Muslim histories? Yahya Birt reflects on his surprise…

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We Won

Last Wednesday the Everyday Muslim team attended the 9th Annual Community Heritage Archive Group Conference and Award ceremony. Our team was up for the…

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Ramadan Days

Amber Khohar is an artist from South London. In her interview she shares an honest reflection of the physical impact of Ramadan and that…

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  • #celebrating130years @shahjahanmosque Ismail de Yorke (1909-1953) was a lawyer, officer of the Royal Army, and devout Muslim. 
The son of Egyptian Princess Princess Saliha Hilmi and Russian count and diplomat Serge Yourkevitch, de Yourke’s parents participated in two weddings, on the 19th July 1909 at the Lutheran Church in St Petersburg, Russia, as well as on the 22nd of December, in an Islamic Nikah (wedding ceremony) at the @shahjahanmosque Jahan Mosque in Woking. De Yorke studied Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a BA honours in 1930. After being called to the Bar, however, de York’s career was put on pause due to the outbreak of the second war. He he joined the 12th L.A.A. Regiment, R.A. in 1939, and due to his amiable personality and sociable spirit, he was soon promoted to officer status. 
Following his service, De York used his legal qualifications to help tackle post-war housing shortages, as well as establishan organisation named the "Muslim Society in Great Britain" in 1933. Additionally, he was a member of the Woking Muslim Mission and Literary Trust and  a regular contributor to the Islamic Review, through which he organized events and invited prominent speakers from across the world to discuss issues of national, international and religious importance (editorial, Islamic Review, 1942). On the 9th of April 1953, at the mere age of 44, De Yorke breathed his last breath and passed away. His funeral was conducted according to the Islamic tradition and he was buried at the Brookwood cemetery, near Woking. De Yorke’s life personified and exemplified his passion for serving humanity and in furthering the development and integration of Muslims in Britain. 
#EDMHAI #muslimheritage #muslimhistory #britishhistory  #historyarchive #britishmuslims #muslimcommunity #muslimrepresentation  #muslimstories #everydaymuslim edited by @tennesseewoodiel
  • Sir Abdullah Charles Edward Archibald Watkin Hamilton 5th and 3rd Baronet (1876 - 1939) was a British Knight and Baron. 
Sir Abdullah was the 5th Baronet of Trebishun, Breconshire and 3rd Baronet of Marlborough House, Hampshire. He was known popularly as “the only Mohammedan (muslim) baronet”, Sir Hamilton was a relative of the English Royal family and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Defence Corps. He was also President of the Selsey (Sussex) Conservative Association and a member of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. He converted to Islam in 1924 at the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, where he also married his third wife, Lilian Austen, in a ‘nikah’ ceremony in 1920, 17 years before he legally wedded her in 1927.  Sir Hamilton was amongst the dignitaries to welcome Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in 1936 to the mosque, and is also said to have been offered the throne of Muslim Albania. He now lies at the Brookwood Cemetery.

The photo of Haile Selassie is from a collection @thelightboxwoking 
#EDMHAI #muslimheritage #muslimhistory #britishhistory  #historyarchive #britishmuslims #muslimcommunity #muslimrepresentation  #muslimstories #everydaymuslim  Edited by @tennesseewoodiel
  • Alice Blacker-Douglass (1869-1956) was a prominent socialite with mysterious links to british Islam. 
Born in Dublin into a family of Irish landed gentry, Alice inherited her father’s estate and lands at the age of 34. She was a mother of three children, as well as the wife of Maxwell Vandeleur Blacker-Douglas, an officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who went on to hold the office of Justice of the Peace and later held the office of Deputy Lieutenant. Alice appears to have been quite prominent figure in social circles, with an August 1904 edition of Tatler commenting on a “pale blue voile gown trimmed with guipure lace worn by [her]on one occasion,” and “a very noticeable gown which aroused a great deal of admiration”. Her links to British Islam are partly revealed in the May1940 edition of the Islamic Review, in which a portrait photograph of Alice appears with a description proclaiming her to be “agreat asset to the Muslim fraternity in Great Britain.” Whether this implies she was herself a Muslim, or just a supporter or admirer of the faith and its followers, is unclear. What is evident is that she was in some way involved in thepublication of two pamphlets, “Reincarnation of Souls” and “What does Muhammad say about Jesus?” by the Woking Muslim Mission and Literary Trust. Following her death on the 10th of October 1956, The Islamic Review ran an “In Memoriam” column. Unfortunately the content, which undoubtedly would shed much light on herconnection to Woking Mosque and Islam, is not currently available. 
#EDMHAI #muslimheritage #muslimhistory #britishhistory  #historyarchive #britishmuslims #muslimcommunity #muslimrepresentation  #muslimstories #everydaymuslim @tennesseewoodiel 
You can learn more about Muslims in Britain at the @thelightboxwoking exhibition until the 28th of November.  Edited by @tennesseewoodiel
  • We are continuing to celebrate the 130th Anniversary of the @shahjahanmosque. The first and oldest purpose-built mosque in Britain. 
The role of the Shah Jahan Mosque during the Great War can be seen through the reportage of the provincial newspapers and the Islamic Review which was regarded as the widest circulated Islamic publication in the world. The Western Daily Press newspaper published in Bristol reported that at a meeting of the British Muslim Society in September 1914, held at Woking Mosque, the following resolution was unanimously carried: “We desire to offer our whole-hearted congratulation to our Eastern brethren now at the Front, and to express our delight to find that our co-religionists in Islam are fighting on the side of honour, truth and justice, and are thus carrying into effect the principles of Islam,
as inculcated by the Holy Prophet Mohammed.” Don’t forget you can visit our exhibition about he @thelightboxwoking until November 28th.

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  • Sepoy Mahrup Shah was a Pakistani (Indian) soldier who died in WWI. 
Most likely ‘Mahruf’, he was from Kandoo, Peshwar and served in the Regiment, 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, Burma Military Police. His was amongst the first Indian regiments to attack the Germans in World War I. Mahrup was a rifleman who served on the Western Front in both France and Belgium. Mahrup like most of his compatriots was injured and taken to the Brighton Pavillion, which was serving as a temporary hospital for Indian soldiers. He died there on 16th Sept 1915 and was brought to be buried in the special Muslim Burial Ground for soldiers on Horsell Common in Woking. His remains like all the others here was moved to this location in the 1960s. Upon his death a ‘death plaque’, where his name is spelt ‘Marup’, and a letter of condolence from King George V, was sent to his family in India. These two items have made their way into archives of the local Surrey History Centre. He now lies at the Brookwood Cemetery. 
#EDMHAI #muslimheritage #muslimhistory #britishhistory  #historyarchive #britishmuslims #muslimcommunity #muslimrepresentation  #muslimstories #everydaymuslim
  • Sheik Nubie (1860-1895) was brought to England from his home in Bombay to perform as a Juggler at Queen Victoria’s Empire of India Exhibition at Earl’s Court. 
After Reportedly dying of pneumonia en route to meeting the Empress of India at Windsor in July 1895,  he was brought to Brookwood Cemetery, where he was the first Muslim to be buried there. 
The cemetery since became the burial place of many other Muslims, following the acquisition of a plot by Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, the founder of the Oriental institute, who set it aside in 1884 for any Muslim students that came to his institute and might have passed away whilst they were there. Dr Leitner’s cemetery became the first Muslim Cemetery in the whole of northern Europe, and is now listed as a Grade I Historic Park and Gardens. Sheik Nubie’s grave location on the historic site is no longer known. 
#EDMHAI #muslimheritage #muslimhistory #britishhistory  #historyarchive #britishmuslims #muslimcommunity #muslimrepresentation  #muslimstories #everydaymuslim

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