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

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[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[10][11]
  • The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam, ed. by Ron Geaves and Yahya Birt (Beacon Books, 2021) ISBN 978-1-912356-89-8[12]
  • Pandemic Pilgrimage: Poems from Bradford to Makkah and Medina (Blurb, 2022), ISBN 979-8210001115

References
  1. "Being British & Muslim – Community, Culture & History, Yahya Birt", Bayt al Fann: A House for Everyone (July 2022).
  2. B. C., "Love's Friends", The Economist (14 February 2014).
  3. Birt, Yahya (14 February 2017). "Blowin' in the Wind: Trumpism and Traditional Islam in America". Medium. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  4. "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.
  5. "Yahya Birt - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  6. Hussain2015-11-09T16:01:00+00:00, Murtaza HussainMurtaza. "How U.S. Schools Can Avoid Britain's Problems with Radicalization Screening". The Intercept. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  7. "Ministry of Justice looks set to target Muslim prison chaplains - The Muslim News". The Muslim News. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  8. Aziz Huq, "Is there room for Islam in European pluralism?", altmuslim (19 November 2010).
  9. Grace Davie, "Keeping God’s market share", Church Times (21 June 2011).
  10. Ismaeel Nakhuda, "'Islam in Victorian Liverpool' by Yusuf Samih Asmay", Asian Image (1 August 2021).
  11. 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.
  12. "The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam", The Muslim 500: The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims (2023), 244.



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