Q News was a British Muslim

Islam in the United Kingdom

Islam has been present in the United Kingdom since its formation in 1707, though it was not legally recognised until the Trinitarian Act in 1812. Today it is the second largest religion in the country with estimates suggesting that by 2010 the total Muslim population had reached 2.869 million.The...

 magazine published by Q-News Media Limited. It described itself as "Britain's leading Muslim magazine, providing independent analysis, critique and review of politics, culture and ideas."

The magazine was first published in 1991 as Muslim Wise but was renamed Q News in March 1992 by then-editor Fuad Nahdi

Fuad Nahdi

Fuad Nahdi is the founding editor of Q News, and a freelance journalist.He was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and graduated in economics in Nairobi. He came to the UK in 1983 with a Reuters fellowship...

. It was first published fortnight

Fortnight

The fortnight is a unit of time equal to fourteen days, or two weeks. The word derives from the Old English fēowertyne niht, meaning "fourteen nights"....

ly in tabloid format before moving to the current monthly magazine format. The current editor of Q News is Fareena Alam

Fareena Alam

Fareena Alam is Editor of Q News, a British Muslim Magazine.-Background:Fareena is an established journalist. She is possibly the youngest Editor of a Muslim current affairs publication, Q News. She is a freelance contributor to British and international newspapers...

; previous staff members have included Faisal Bodi and Shagufta Yaqub

Shagufta Yaqub

Shagufta Yaqub is a journalist and commentator. She has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent as well as being a former editor of Q News. She has also contributed to BBC Radio Four as a presenter of Thought for the Day on the Today programme....

. Contributing editors include Abdul-Rehman Malik, Fozia Bora and Nabila Munawar. Q-News columnists include Hamza Yusuf

Hamza Yusuf

Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an Islamic scholar of the Sunni tradition, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is an American convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders,...

, Habib Ali al-Jifri

Habib Ali al-Jifri

Habib Ali Zain al-`Abideen al-Jifri is an Islamic scholar from Hadhramaut, Yemen of the Shafi'i school of fiqh, and the Ashari school of aqida.-Background:...

, Nazim Baksh, Arzu Merali, Yahya Birt, Khalida Khan, Faraz Rabbani

Faraz Rabbani

Faraz Fareed Rabbani is a scholar and researcher of Islamic law and translator of several Arabic works to the English language.-Biography:Faraz Rabbani was born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Toronto, Canada. He entered the University of Toronto with a full scholarship and completed his...

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Q-News published four issues in 2006. Its last publication was September/October 2006.