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''The Crescent'' newspaper was re-launched in 2014 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. == History == 1893 to 1908 ''The Crescent - a weekly record of Islam in England''〔British Newspaper Library ref: BLL01013898565 Title: The Crescent : (A weekly record of Islam in England)〕 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〔A person is considered to have converted to Islam from the moment he or she sincerely makes this declaration of faith, called the ''shahadah'', and this declaration encompasses their acceptance and belief in the five pillars, or foundations, of Islam and that there is only one God and Creator, referred to as Allah (the word for the name of God in Arabic) and that the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, is His last and final messenger. Converts are sometimes referred to as Reverts as Muslim teaching holds that everyone is Muslim at birth because every child that is born has a natural inclination to goodness and to worship the one true God alone, but his or her parents or society can cause him or her to deviate from the straight path. When someone accepts Islam he/she is considered to revert to his/her original condition.〕 and Muslim community with in the British Isles, although its readership quickly grew via subscription to a global community. The first edition was published on 14 January 1893 from 32 Elizabeth Street,〔Elizabeth Street now forms part of the Faculty of Medicine at Liverpool University, but his father, Robert Henry Quilliam, a successful watchmaker, was trading from the premises under his father's name Samuel Quilliam〕 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〔''The Crescent'' - statement to advertisers in the last edition published on 28 May 1908 from Geneva Road, Liverpool.〕 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.〔2s. 6d. (two shillings and sixpence, or half a crown) equates to 12.5 pence decimal〕 per inch per insertion. After outgrowing the Muslim prayer hall established by Quilliam in Mount Vernon, Liverpool, in 1888 he rented 8 Brougham Terrace〔(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'',〔''The Islamic World'' - an intermittent monthly publication from 1889 which preceded ''The Crescent'' - ref: ''Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam'' ISBN 1847740103〕 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〔''The Crescent'' - article 28 March 1900 – ''Proposed mosque in Liverpool''. J.H. McGovern had provided architectural detailed plans for the proposed mosque at the new site and these plans were forwarded to Quilliam in Istanbul in 1898, so that he could submit them to the Sultan, Abdul Hamid II for approval and financial assistance.〕 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 social history of a growing Muslim convert community. Such names as Yahya McQuinn, T. Omar Byrne, Fatima Cates, Yahya Nasser Parkinson, Nasrullah Warren, J. Bokhari Jeffery, and Omar Roberts appear regularly in the editorial. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Crescent (newspaper)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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