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The last of the lascars : Yemeni Muslims in Britain, 1836-2012 / Mohammad Siddique Seddon.
Van Pelt Library DA125.Y45 S444 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seddon, Mohammed Sidiq.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yemenis--England.
- Yemenis.
- Muslims--England.
- Muslims.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Yemeni Muslims in Britain, 1836-2012
- Place of Publication:
- Markfield, Leicestershire : Kube Academic, [2014]
- Summary:
- The Last of the Lascars: Yemeni Muslims in Britain 1836-2012 charts the fascinating and little-known history of Britain's oldest Muslim community. Originally arriving as imperial oriental sailors and later as postcolonial labour migrants, Yemeni Muslims have lived in British ports and industrial cities from the mid-nineteenth century, marrying local British wives, established a network of 'Arab-only' boarding houses and cafes. They also established Britain's first mosques and religious communities in the early twentieth century, encountering racism, discrimination and even deportation in the process. Based on original research, this book brings together the unique narratives and events in the story of a British Muslim community that stretches across 170 years of history from empire to modern multicultural Britain. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Yemen: A Brief History of Arabia Felix 22
- Ancient Rulers and Kingdoms 25
- Islam and the Zaydi Imams 29
- The Creation of Two Yemens 39
- Yemen Reunified 42
- Tribes and Tribalism 46
- 'The Remotest Village' 49
- 2 From Aden to 'Tiger Bay', 'Barbary Coast' and 'Little Arabia' 51
- A British Colony at Aden 52
- Yemeni Bahriyyah and Lascars 57
- Lascar Destitution and Christian Mission 62
- Muslim Rites and Rituals 68
- Lascar Settlement in Manchester 80
- 3 First World War: From Sacrifice to Sufferance 84
- Trade Unionism and Lascars 87
- World War One 90
- The 1919 Mill Dam Riots 93
- 'Mixed Race' Marriages and 'Mongrol' Children 97
- 'Arab-Only' Boarding Houses and Cafes 99
- Muwassit Rivalries 108
- Restricting Lascar Settlement 113
- 4 Interwar Period: Shaykh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi and the 'Alawi Tariqah 117
- Shaykh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi 118
- Shaykh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-'Alawi 119
- The 'Alawi Tariqah in Britain 123
- The Establishment of Zawaya 131
- Al-Hakimi in Cardiff 134
- Manifestations of Religious Identity 140
- The Free Yemen Movement 143
- Al-Hakimi's Legacy 146
- 5 Post-World War Two Migration, the Muwalladun and Shaykh Hassan Ismail 150
- Post-World War Two Migration 151
- Discrimination and Racism 156
- The Muwalladun 163
- Integration and Community Formation 173
- 'Muslimness' and the.Zawaya 180
- The Succession of Shaykh Hassan Ismail 184
- 6 Shaykh Said Hassan Ismail and 'Second Wave' Migration 188
- Shaykh Said Hassan Ismail 188
- The Sayyid, Masha'ikh and Qaba'il 196
- The Making of the Urban Village 200
- The Diaspora and Yemen 204
- Political Activism and Community Development 210
- The 'Prince' Naseem Factor 213
- 7 Becoming Visible: The Emergence of British Yemenis 219
- Acculturating British Yemeniness 221
- 'Anglo-Arabs' and 'English Muslims' 225
- Is Chewing Qat Consuming Yemen? 228
- A Tale of Two Cities: Capacity Building 238
- Preserving Tradition and Embracing Transformation 241.
- ISBN:
- 1847740359
- 9781847740359
- OCLC:
- 813931760
- Publisher Number:
- 99957740430
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