'The British Birth of the Occult Revival, 1869-1875'

This is an unpublished paper written in 2014 that was apparently lost by the journal to which it was submitted. Although the research for this paper served as the foundation for a section in Chapter 2 of my book A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Vol. 1: White American Muslims before 1975 (Brill, 2015) (publisher website), the present essay contains a few pieces of information not included in the book. Also, this essay contains references to another unpublished essay I wrote (‘Kenneth R.H. MacKenzie’s “Papers on Masonry” and the Spread of Islamic-Identity Organizations in the U.S. and England in the Late Nineteenth Century’), which was supposed to be released in an edited volume that has been put on hold indefinitely. Much of the research for that essay was used in Chapter 4 of A History. Finally, it should be mentioned that I have not edited the present essay since the time I originally submitted it, so it may contain some writing and research flaws.

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