Ron geaves biography

Ron Geaves (born 7 June 1948) is a.
Ron Geaves is a British scholar of religious studies who was professor of the comparative study of religion at Liverpool Hope University in England, retiring in December 2013.
Ronald Geaves is a professor of theology and religious studies at the Liverpool Hope University in England.

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Ron Geaves

Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam. By Ron Geaves

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe Online

This is the first full biography of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the most significant Muslim pe... more This is the first full biography of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the most significant Muslim personality in nineteenth century Britain. Uniquely ennobled as the Sheikh of Islam of the British Isles by the Ottoman caliph, Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1893, Quilliam, as a charismatic preacher, created a remarkable community of Muslims in Victorian Liverpool, which included a substantial number of converts. A successful solicitor, Quilliam fought for the rights of the city's poor and, in the high noon of European colonialism, defended the Ottoman caliphate and independent Muslim states through his two international publications, "The Crescent" and "The Islamic World". After 1908, in controversial circumstances, Quilliam left Liverpool and spent the rest of his life living under a pseudonym, but still figure

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"He's certainly fullfilled his promise and sort of going back to that original moment when when I sat in front of him and and asked him for peace if I could find peace in my life and, and that has certainly been fulfilled perhaps not in the way I expected you see I had this sort of hippie concept, sort of a bit of politics and anti-Vietnam (giggles) and feeling a bit cool inside myself but, but a real deep fulfillment inside my life, umm, there are things I can say about my life which I would like to hope that all human beings can say, I think all human beings should be able to say it but I can actually honestly say it those things I can, I can look at my life and say "My life has been absolutely fantastic." The, umm, I cannot think of any way that it could of been better. It's just, you know, that's not to say there haven't been problems or difficulties but it but the fulfillment that Knowledge has given me and the inspiration that Maharaji has given me has meant that I am actually able to look at my existence, my life and say this is the most extraordinary thing that ever happe

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Geaves, Ronald (Ron Geaves, Ronald Allan Geaves)

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD, England.

CAREER:

Writer, educator, and religious advisor. University of Chester, Chester, England, professor of the comparative study of religion; interfaith advisor to the Bishop of Chester.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Theodore Gabriel, Yvonne Haddad, and Jane Idleman Smith) Islam and the West Post-9/11, Ashgate (Burlington, VT), 2004.

(With Theodore Gabriel) Isms: Understanding Religion, Allen & Unwin (Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Ronald Geaves is a professor of theology and religious studies at the Liverpool Hope University in England. A frequent author of academic works on religion and related issues, Geaves has contributed articles to a variety of scholarly journals and books on a wide variety of religious subjects.

Geaves has twice collaborated with Theodore Gabriel, an honorary research fellow and emeritus lecturer at the University of Glouces