Abdullah Quilliam

عبد الله كويليام

10 April 1856 CE · 1272 AH – 23 April 1932 CE · 1350 AH

Liverpool solicitor (1856-1932) who converted to Islam in 1887 and founded the Liverpool Muslim Institute, England's first functioning mosque (1889); the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II granted him the title of Shaykh al-Islam of the British Isles, and some 600 British converts are credited to his preaching.