Yahya Birt is a British-American writer and academic. Holding an Oxford University M.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and described by ''The'' ''Economist'' in 2014 as "an influential British Muslim", he was as of 2017 a doctoral candidate at

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in the UK. He is the son of

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, former Director-General of the

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. A convert to Islam, his academic research is focused on contemporary Islam in general, and British Islam in particular; he has worked on

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. Birt's commentary has been cited in a number of newspapers, including the ''

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''. Birt is a liberal Muslim

Works

In addition to academic research articles on Islam in Britain, Birt has written or co-edited the following books.Being British & Muslim – Community, Culture & History, Yahya Birt
, ''Bayt al Fann: A House for Everyone'' (July 2022). * ''British Secularism and Religion'' (2016) * ''Islam in Victorian Liverpool'' (2021) * ''The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam'' (2021) * ''Pandemic Pilgrimage: Poems from Bradford to Makkah and Medina'' (2022)

References

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