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Another famous convert was the Victorian explorer Richard Francis Burton who successfully completed a Hajj to Mecca in 1853, although later in life he declared himself an atheist. Abdullah Quilliam was a 19th-century Englishman who converted to Islam and built what is argued to be the first mosque in the country in Liverpool. He was known ...
In Britain, around 6,000 people convert to Islam per year and, according to a June 2000 article in the British Muslims Monthly Survey, the majority of new Muslim converts in Britain were women. [23] According to The Huffington Post , "Though exact numbers are difficult to tally, observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to ...
In Britain, around 6,000 people convert to Islam per year and, according to a June 2000 article in the British Muslims Monthly Survey, the majority of new Muslim converts in Britain were women. [41] According to The Huffington Post, "observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually." [42]
Aisha Lemu – British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961. Alexander Litvinenko – British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service,allegedly converted to Islam in Britain and was rumoured to have told his father he had converted to Islam on his death bed. [143]
Radical Islam has been present in Great Britain since the 1970s, but has not received wider public attention prior to the 7 July 2005 London bombings; terrorism in Britain during the 1970s to 1990s was mostly due to the Northern Ireland conflict, and it was only after the 2005 incidents that the presence of radical political Islam in Britain was widely recognized and studied.
The Grand Mosque of Bradford is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom.. Islam in England is the second largest religion after Christianity. [1] Most Muslims are immigrants from South Asia (in particular Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India) or descendants of immigrants from that region.
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.
John Nelson was one of the earliest known Englishmen to convert to Islam. This information comes from the book The Voyage made to Tripoli (1583) by Thomas Saunders. [ 1 ]