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The Crescent newspaper was re-launched in 2012 as an electronic web based newspaper initially published monthly for the pilot and subsequent issues and this was reduced to weekly every Friday thereafter . The tabloid 12 page format launched in 2003 failed due to the massive overheads of printing and distributing community based paper, it was decided to take advantage of the latest developments in e-publishing and re-launch the paper as an electronic web based publication.
The Crescent newspaper is an independent community based publication and encourages and promotes independent editorial comment and news content. It draws on communal journalistic resources in a broader sense if the definition from across the British Isles and Eire, but is not confined by the perceived definition of Community Journalism.
Contents
[hide] 1 History
2 2012 to present
3 Regular content and features
4 Sections
5 Target readership
6 Online presence
7 Ownership
8 Political allegiance
9 External links
10 The Crescent archives 1893-1908
11 References & Notes
History [edit]
1893 to 1908
The Crescent 1st edition
14 January 1893 vol. 1 no.1
The Crescent vol. 16 no.420
30 January 1901
The Crescent - a weekly record of Islam in England[1] was originally published weekly in Liverpool from 1893. As such, it can claim to be oldest and first regular publication reflecting and serving the early Convert[2] and Muslim community with in the British Isles, although it's readership quickly grew via subscription to a global community. The first edition was published on the 14th of January 1893 from 32 Elizabeth Street,[3] Liverpool, shortly before moving to Brougham Terrace. It was edited by W.H. Abdullah Quilliam and represented Muslims in England and growing convert community between 1893 and 1908.
A statement in The Crescent to its advertisers[4] declared that "in addition to the thousands of copies in circulation within the British Isles, in addition to which thousands of copies of the Paper are sent regularly abroad to subscribers in France, Spain, Switzerland, Constantinople, Smyrna, Syria, Turkey in Asia, Russia, Morocco, Tunis, Algeria, Malta, Egypt, Persia, Beluchistan, Ceylon, Arabia, the Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Zanzibar, Lagos, Gambia, Sierra Leone, the west Coast of Africa, Afghanistan, Penang, Singapore, China, British Guiana, Trinidad, Canada, the United States of America, and many parts of India, this forming a capital advertising medium". The advertising rate was stated as being 2s. 6d.[5] per inch per insertion.
After outgrowing the Muslim prayer hall established by Quilliam in Mount Vernon, Liverpool, in 1888 he rented 8 Brougham Terrace and also acquired the neighbouring properties, numbers 10 and 12 in 1889, and in the basement a Printing Press was established to produce the monthly editions of The Islamic World,[6] which was subscribed to globally. In 1893, it evolved into the weekly publication The Crescent - a weekly record of Islam in England.
Plans were announced for a purpose built mosque to be built to the design of J.H. McGovern[7] on the site of 10 and 12 Brougham Terrace, but did not materialise, any more that did those of 1902, for a mosque in the communities new centre at Geneva Road, Elm Park, Liverpool where The Crescent continued to be published until May 1908.
The Crescent newspaper is a fascinating social history of a growing Muslim Convert community. Such names appear regularly in the editorial as Yahya McQuinn, T. Omar Byrne, Fatima Cates, Yahya Nasser Parkinson, Nasrullah Warren, J. Bokhari Jeffery, Omar Roberts.
2012 to present [edit]
It was relaunched in the month of Shawwaal[8] 1433 (August/September 2012) by British Muslim converts residing in the UK as an on-line newspaper with the title 'The Crescent newspaper'.It is planned to publish the paper weekly on Friday's from the first Friday of the Muslim New Year in Muharrem[9] 1334 (Friday the 16th of November 2012)
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