Ron Geaves holds a Chair in the Comparative Study of Religion in the Theology and Religious Studies of Liverpool Hope University. The author of nineteen books on religion, his research interests focus upon the transmigration of Islam into the UK. In recent works he has been arguing for the revival of Sufism globally (see 2007, 2008, 2009 2009c) and, also, the history of the Muslim presence in the UK, culminating in his ground-breaking Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam, Kube Press, 2010 which has generated considerable interest from the media and led to two radio and one TV documentary. He is currently working on The Collected Works of Abdullah Quilliam: A British Muslim of the Nineteenth Century, to be published by Kube Press in 2013 and an edited collection ) Transformations and Trends in British Sufism to be published by Continuum also in 2013.