42-753: The Liverpool Muslim Institute was founded by Abdullah Quilliam in 1887. William Henry Quilliam was born in Liverpool in 1856. He developed an interest in Islam when travelling in Morocco. In 1887 he converted to the religion, taking the name Abdullah Quilliam and founding the Liverpool Muslim Institute with Mrs. Elizabeth Cates. Within two years they had set up a small mosque within their building at 8, Brougham Terrace, on West Derby Road, Liverpool. The Liverpool Mosque and Muslim Institute
84-473: A Skeleton Army in order to disrupt their meetings. The Salvation Army quickly spread internationally, maintaining an emphasis on abstinence. In Wales Lady Llanover , motivated by Calvinistic Methodist teachings, was an outspoken critic of the evils of alcohol and closed all the public houses on her estate. Many Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) took an active role in
126-771: A communist temperance activist called Bob Stewart , who followed the British Labour Party on all other issues. It went on to defeat Winston Churchill in Dundee in the 1922 general election . There was a Marxist offshoot called the Prohibition and Reform Party , which later became part of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. Between the wars, American exponents of the sterling example set to Britain by National Prohibition , such as William "Pussyfoot" Johnson and Mary Harris Armor , toured
168-463: A current called "temperance chartism". Faced with the refusal of the parliament of the time to give the right to vote to working people, the temperance chartists saw the campaign against alcohol as a way of proving to the elites that working-class people were responsible enough to be granted the vote. In short, the 1830s was mostly characterised by moral persuasion of workers. In 1847, the Band of Hope
210-455: A danger to society's wellbeing, leading to social issues such as poverty, child neglect, immorality and economic decline. Temperance societies began to be formed in the 1830s to campaign against alcohol. Specific groups were created over periods of time dedicated to the different aspects of drinking. For example, in 1847, the Band of Hope was created to persuade children not to start drinking alcohol. Most of these temperance groups were aimed at
252-650: A donation from Nasrullah Khan , Crown Prince of the Emirate of Afghanistan . 8 Brougham Terrace became the Liverpool Muslim Institute , the first functioning mosque in Britain; it opened on Christmas Day , 1889. Quilliam also opened a boarding school for boys and a day school for girls, as well as an orphanage, Medina House, for non-Muslim parents who were unable to look after their children and agreed for them to be brought up as Muslims. In addition,
294-545: A monthly publication with a worldwide audience. In 1890, Quilliam orchestrated protests against the showing of Hall Caine 's play, Mahomet . The first public Muslim burial in Liverpool was of Michael Hall, a former Methodist preacher who had converted to Islam, in 1891. A number of notables converted to Islam as a result of Quilliam's preaching. They included professors Nasrullah Warren and Haschem Wilde, as well as Robert Stanley , JP and former mayor of Stalybridge . It
336-702: A mosque and Islamic centre. Without Quilliam's influence and funding, the Muslim community in Liverpool dispersed. He returned to the UK before December 1914 under the name of H. M. Leon. He spent much of his time at Onchan on the Isle of Man. He died in Taviton Street, Bloomsbury , London in 1932, and was buried in an unmarked grave at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking . The prominent Anglo-Muslims Abdullah Yusuf Ali , Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (who each translated
378-521: A similar law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the UK. This hard-line group of prohibitionists was opposed by other temperance organisations who preferred moral persuasion to a legal ban. This division in the ranks limited the effectiveness of the temperance movement as a whole. The impotence of legislation in this field was demonstrated when the Sale of Beer Act 1854 which restricted Sunday opening hours had to be repealed, following widespread rioting. In 1856,
420-469: A stricter form of temperance emerged called teetotalism , which promoted the complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages, this time including wine and beer, not just ardent spirits . The term teetotal is apocryphally said to derive from a speech by Richard "Dickie" Turner, a follower of Livesey, in Preston in 1833. In 1838, the mass working class movement for universal suffrage, Chartism , included
462-578: A survey of 1,900 Baptist ministers revealed that 1,000 were total abstainers. In the 19th century, the Methodist Churches were aligned with the temperance movement. Methodists believed that despite the supposed economic benefits of liquor traffic such as job creation and taxes, the harm that it caused society through its contribution to murder, gambling , prostitution , and political corruption outweighed its economic benefits. Both Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists championed
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#1732801161210504-586: A think tank aimed at challenging extremist Islamist ideologies, launched in 2008, was named after him. Temperance movement in the United Kingdom The temperance movement in the United Kingdom was a social movement that campaigned against the recreational use and sale of alcohol , and promoted total abstinence ( teetotalism ). In the 19th century, high levels of alcohol consumption and drunkenness were seen by social reformers as
546-554: A traitor. His legacy is principally maintained by the Abdullah Quilliam Society, which was founded in 1996. The society aims to complete the restoration of the Liverpool Muslim Institute on Brougham Terrace. The society has been assisted by academics including Ron Geaves , formerly of Liverpool Hope University , and Mehmet Seker of Dokuz Eylül University . The society also offers university student accommodation. Quilliam , originally The Quilliam Foundation,
588-620: Is estimated that around 600 people converted to Islam in Britain as a direct result of Quilliam's work. He travelled extensively and received many honours from the leaders of the Islamic world. Abdul Hamid II , the 26th Ottoman Caliph, granted Quilliam the title of Shaykh al-Islām for the British Isles. The Emir of Afghanistan recognised him as the Sheikh of Muslims in Britain and he was appointed as Persian Vice Consul in Liverpool by
630-676: The National Temperance League was formed as an amalgamation of two other organizations. In 1859, a prototype prohibition bill was overwhelmingly defeated in the House of Commons. Temperance clubs and institutes came into being, one of the largest in the UK, formed in 1864 and still in use, was Wisbech Working Men's Club and Institute , Isle of Ely . One of its trustees was the banker and Quaker Baron Peckover , Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire . The US-based (but international) Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
672-578: The working class . Temperance was also supported by some religious groups, particularly the Nonconformist Churches. Although the temperance movement met with local success in parts of Britain, it failed to impose national prohibition , and disappeared as a significant force following the Second World War. Before the 19th century, there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess, but total abstinence from alcohol
714-491: The Institute hosted educational classes covering a wide range of subjects, and included a museum and science laboratory. In 1889, he first published The Faith of Islam , which was concerned with dawah to Islam and its key principles. Initially, 2,000 copies were published, but a further 3,000 copies were produced in 1890. Quilliam also published The Crescent , a weekly account of Muslims in Britain, and Islamic World ,
756-656: The Qur'an), and Lord Headley were later buried near him. Quilliam argued that Muslims should not "take up arms" against other Muslims on the behalf of non-Muslims. During the war in Sudan, Quilliam published a pamphlet stating that any British Muslim that decided to aid in some manner the expedition was acting in "contrary to the Shariat ". His political views and allegiance to the Ottoman Caliph led some to denounce him as
798-592: The Shah. He had contact with English-speaking West African Muslims and toured the region's coastal cities on his way to Lagos to attend the consecration of the Shitta Bey Mosque in 1894. Quilliam's work in Liverpool stopped when he left England in 1908 in advance of being struck off the Roll of Solicitors for unprofessional conduct as a solicitor. His son swiftly disposed of the property that had been used as
840-400: The building and soon attracted an international readership from across 20 countries. Maulavi Barkatullah worked at the institute from 1895 to 1899. Abdul Kadir Khan ( bar-at-law ), son of Haji Munir Khan was a trusted companion of Abdullah Quilliam; he taught Arabic, Urdu and Persian with professors Nasrullah Warren and Haschem Wilde at Liverpool Muslim Institute. Robert Stanley served as
882-531: The cause of temperance. The Wesleyan Methodists built around 100 'Central Halls', large venues which hosted cheap concerts, comedy shows and films, intended to keep the urban working classes away from public houses. In 1864, another Methodist group, the Salvation Army was founded in London with a heavy emphasis on abstinence from alcohol and ministering to the working class, which led publicans to fund
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#1732801161210924-600: The country, to be met with derision, and in Johnson's case, violence. In the end, the example of the failure of prohibition in America put an end to any remote chance that the temperance lobby would succeed in achieving its aims in the UK. In February 1960 Forte applied for a table licence for its new Newport Pagnell services , but after opposition from local vicars, and the Methodist and Baptist churches, and not least
966-690: The country. By the end of the 19th century, it was estimated that about a tenth of the adult population were total abstainers of alcohol. The temperance movement received an unexpected boost due to state intervention when the Liberal government passed the Defence of the Realm Act in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War. According to the provisions of the Act, pub hours were licensed, beer
1008-689: The court system would lead to the first probation service. The League of the Cross was founded in 1873 by Cardinal Manning . A Roman Catholic -only organisation, the League's members took a pledge of total abstinence. From 1880 to 1882 the cause of abstinence was revived by the Gospel Temperance or Blue Ribbon movement , based in America. They sent a member named Richard Booth to promote their cause in England through mass meetings held up and down
1050-479: The elimination of spirits rather than wine and beer. The first organisation that promoted temperance was founded in 1829 by John Dunlop and his aunt, Lilias Graham of Gairbraid , and named the Glasgow and West of Scotland Temperance Society. Joseph Livesey was another British temperance advocate who financed his philanthropic work with the profits attained from cheese production, following an introduction to
1092-465: The food product by a doctor he had consulted with regards to a serious ailment in 1816. Livesey opened the first temperance hotel in 1833 and the next year founded the first temperance magazine, The Preston Temperance Advocate (1834–37). The British Association for the Promotion of Temperance was established by 1835. As a response to rising social problems in the newly industrialised cities,
1134-544: The founder of the Methodist Churches , proclaimed "that buying, selling, and drinking of liquor, unless absolutely necessary, were evils to be avoided". The early temperance movement was inspired by the actions of Irish Presbyterian Church minister John Edgar , who poured his stock of whiskey out of his window in 1829. On 14 August 1829 he wrote a letter in the Belfast Telegraph advocating temperance. Edgar and other early advocates concentrated their efforts on
1176-431: The local police, the local magistrates refused the table licence, setting a precedent for all British motorway service stations, to this day. The former Manchester City F.C. football stadium Maine Road took its name from a street that had been renamed Maine Road (from Dog Kennel Lane) by members of the temperance movement. They selected the name as a result of the 1851 Maine Law . Vimto , originally "Vim Tonic ",
1218-636: The premises and has started restoration work. 8, Brougham Terrace, West Derby Road was upgraded to a Grade II* listed building in 2018. It is built in brick, partly stuccoed , with stone dressings, and a slate roof. The terrace has three storeys, and is in six bays . The windows are sashes . At the top is a shallow parapet . 53°24′50″N 2°57′36″W / 53.414°N 2.960°W / 53.414; -2.960 Abdullah Quilliam William Henry Quilliam (10 April 1856 – 23 April 1932), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon ,
1260-483: The property that had been used as a mosque and Islamic centre and the Muslim community in Liverpool dispersed. Brougham Terrace became home to the Liverpool Register Office until 2000. The Abdullah Quilliam Society was formed in 1996. The Society is raising funds to restore 8–10, Brougham Terrace to re-open the historic mosque and establish an educational centre. It has signed a two-year lease on
1302-562: The temperance movement. Chocolatier John Cadbury was a temperance Quaker and he viewed drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcoholic beverages. He prohibited the sale of alcohol in Bournville , the model village he founded, and no public houses have been built there. The Church of England Temperance Society, which had roots in the Anglo-Catholic tradition was founded in 1862 by Henry Ellison , and its volunteers within
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1344-732: The treatment of inebriates and held that inebriety was a disease, not a vice, and that it should be treated accordingly. In 1884, in response to the inadequacy of the Habitual Drunkards Act of 1879, he founded the Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety and was the first president. The society still exists as the Society for the Study of Addiction . In 1884 the National Temperance Federation, which
1386-419: The vice president of mosque. By the turn of the century they numbered 150, mostly English people. They were able to expand into adjacent buildings and soon organised a school. They also developed a library, a reading room, museum and science laboratory, providing evening classes for Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Quilliam left Liverpool in 1908 in advance of being struck off as a solicitor and his son disposed of
1428-519: Was a 19th-century British convert from Christianity to Islam , noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre, and Britain's oldest Muslim organization, the Association of British Muslims . William Henry Quilliam was born at 22 Eliot Street, Liverpool, on 10 April 1856, to a wealthy local family. He spent most of his childhood on the Isle of Man and was brought up as a Methodist. He
1470-470: Was associated with the Liberal Party , was founded as an umbrella organisation. The Conservative Party largely supported the interests of the alcohol industry and opposed temperance. The various Nonconformist Churches actively encouraged total abstinence among their congregations, and lobbied parliament to restrict alcohol sales. By the 1870s most young ministers abstained from alcohol. In 1886
1512-528: Was concocted in 1908 as a healthy alternative to alcohol, and originally sold in temperance bars . Fitzpatrick's Herbal Health in Rawtenstall , Lancashire , is thought to be the oldest surviving temperance bar – other such establishments became more popular in the 2010s. Several of the largest temperance organisations survive under different names. For example, the Band of Hope is now named Hope UK , with
1554-721: Was educated at the Liverpool Institute and the Manx King William's College . He became a solicitor in 1878, specialising in criminal law, and practising at 28 Church Street, Liverpool . He defended suspects in many high-profile murder cases. In 1879, he married Hannah Johnstone. At this time, Quilliam was a Wesleyan Methodist and a proponent of the temperance movement . Quilliam converted to Islam in 1887 after visiting Morocco to recover from an illness. Quilliam purchased numbers 8, 11 and 12 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool, following his conversion, thanks to
1596-640: Was founded in Leeds , with the stated aim of saving working class children from the perils of drink. It promoted alcohol education . Band members had to pledge to abstain "from all liquors of an intoxicating quality, whether ale , porter , wine or ardent spirits, except as medicine" In 1853, inspired by the Maine liquor law in the US, the United Kingdom Alliance was formed with the aim of promoting
1638-543: Was founded in 1873, becoming one of the largest women's societies in the world in the 19th century, campaigning for temperance and women's suffrage . In 1876 the British Women's Temperance Association was formed by women to persuade men to stop drinking, rebranded in 2006 as the White Ribbon Association. One of the most active advocates of temperance was Dr. Norman Shanks Kerr . He promoted
1680-406: Was officially established in 1891. This was probably the first recorded mosque in the United Kingdom, as the earlier date attributed to the mosque at 2 Glynrhondda Street , Cardiff has been discounted. By 1893 they started publishing The Crescent on a weekly basis, to be supplemented by The Islamic World , which appeared on a monthly basis. They developed their own print shop in the basement of
1722-629: Was very rarely advocated or practised. In the 18th century, there was a " gin craze " in Great Britain, as satirised in William Hogarth 's Gin Lane . The bourgeoisie became increasingly critical of the widespread drunkenness among the lower classes. Motivated by the bourgeoisie's desire for order, and amplified by the population growth in the cities, the drinking of gin became the subject of critical national debate. In 1743, John Wesley ,
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1764-600: Was watered down and was subject to a penny a pint extra tax. This situation was maintained by the subsequent establishment of the State Management Scheme in 1916 which nationalised breweries and pubs in certain areas of Britain where armaments manufacture was taking place. At the same time, there were temperance organisations connected to the labour movement . An example would be the Scottish Prohibition Party , founded in 1901 by
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