Yahya Birt
Yahya Birt is a British-American writer and academic. Holding an Oxford University M.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology[1] and described by The Economist in 2014 as "an influential British Muslim",[2] he was as of 2017 a doctoral candidate at Leeds University in the UK.[3] He is the son of John Birt, former Director-General of the BBC.[4] A convert to Islam,[4] his academic research is focused on contemporary Islam in general, and British Islam in particular;[5] he has worked on Abdullah Quilliam.[1] Birt's commentary has been cited in a number of newspapers, including the Guardian, the Economist, the Intercept, and The Muslim News.[6][2][7] Birt is a liberal Muslim.[4]
Works[edit]
In addition to academic research articles on Islam in Britain, Birt has written or co-edited the following books.[1]
- British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and State, ed. by Yahya Birt, Dilwar Hussain, and Ataullah Siddiqui (Markfield: Kube, 2011), ISBN 978-1-84774-015-1 Search this book on
.[8][9] - Yusuf Samih Asmay, Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, ed. and trans. by Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2021), ISBN 1800119828 Search this book on .[10][11]
- The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam, ed. by Ron Geaves and Yahya Birt (Beacon Books, 2021) ISBN 978-1-912356-89-8 Search this book on .[12]
- Pandemic Pilgrimage: Poems from Bradford to Makkah and Medina (Blurb, 2022), ISBN 979-8210001115 Search this book on .
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Being British & Muslim – Community, Culture & History, Yahya Birt", Bayt al Fann: A House for Everyone (July 2022).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 B. C., "Love's Friends", The Economist (14 February 2014).
- ↑ Birt, Yahya (2017-02-14). "Blowin' in the Wind: Trumpism and Traditional Islam in America". Medium. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Interview: Question time. 'Islam is one of the world's great religions, not a cult': Yahya Birt, son of Sir John, on faith, family and the people who think he's a 'crank'". The Guardian. 23 November 2006.
- ↑ "Yahya Birt - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ↑ Hussain2015-11-09T16:01:00+00:00, Murtaza HussainMurtaza. "How U.S. Schools Can Avoid Britain's Problems with Radicalization Screening". The Intercept. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ↑ "Ministry of Justice looks set to target Muslim prison chaplains - The Muslim News". The Muslim News. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ↑ Aziz Huq, "Is there room for Islam in European pluralism?", altmuslim (19 November 2010).
- ↑ Grace Davie, "Keeping God’s market share", Church Times (21 June 2011).
- ↑ Ismaeel Nakhuda, "'Islam in Victorian Liverpool' by Yusuf Samih Asmay", Asian Image (1 August 2021).
- ↑ Haseeb Khan, "Book Review: Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community", Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (published online 5 May 2022) doi:10.1080/02619288.2022.2067701.
- ↑ "The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam", The Muslim 500: The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims (2023), 244.
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