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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ALL PRAISE IS DUE to Allah, the Almighty, the Sublime. May his Peace and Blessings be upon his beloved final Prophet and Messenger, Muhammad. I am profoundly grateful to the Yemeni community of Eccles, Greater Manchester, for opening up their homes and their hearts to me during my on-going research into British Yemenis that originally began as a doctoral study in 2001, for which I am also eternally thankful to Professor David Waines for his wise and patient supervision of the original thesis and his useful comments and advice on this subsequent publication. I would like to record my sincere gratitude to the Islamic Foundation, Professor Kurshid Ahmad, Dr Manazir Ahsan and all former colleagues for their financial, spiritual and intellectual support during my years of postgraduate study and research. My particular thanks also goes to Muckbil Ahmad, Gadri Salih, Aziz Bugati, Ali Lehji, Tariq Mahyoub, Ali Mawri and Rabiea Shaker, along with Abdulalim al-Shamiri, Adnan Saif and Imtiaz Ahmad Hussain and his family for all their gracious hospitality and tireless help. I would also like to express my sincere appreciation for the works of K. L. Little, Sydney Collins, Bahr Ud-Din Dahya, Fred Halliday, Richard Lawless and Humayun Ansari for their earlier studies on British Yemenis which have both informed and shaped this monograph. I am deeply indebted to Peter Fryer for granting permission to reproduce his wonderfully insightful photographs in this publication and to Yahya Birt and his colleagues at Kube Publishing for their support in this publication project. My parents and my sisters also need to be publicly acknowledged and personally thanked for both nurturing and tolerating my acute eccentricity and nomadic spirit. Finally, I must record my heartfelt love and eternal gratitude to my wife and children.

Mohammad Siddique Seddon

University of Chester

August 2013