Muslim Europe
Tharik Hussain
Hardback, 432 pages
9780241742822
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A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History
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This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean.
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Our odyssey begins in the little-known Sufi lodges in Cyprus, where Muslims arrived in 647AD. From there, we travel through the continent ā visiting places such as Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain ā encountering red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings. We meet forgotten Muslim pioneers, such as Abbas Ibn Firnas who gave us flight and Ibn Sina who gave us modern medicine. We see the Islam-inspired mudejar art of fourteenth-century Christians in Spain, and how such cross fertilisation birthed Europeās āRenaissanceā. We discover the long-forgotten tombs of European Muslims who knew the Prophet Muhammad, and the author ā award-winning writer Tharik Hussain ā becomes the first Muslim in over 900 years to pray inside the remains of a nameless Sicilian Mosque.
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To remedy Europeās Islamic amnesia, this ambitious history reveals that Islam is no side show to Western culture ā but rather has been integral to its development over 1,400 years.
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Muslim Europe
Tharik Hussain
Hardback, 432 pages
9780241742822
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A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History
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This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean.
Ā
Our odyssey begins in the little-known Sufi lodges in Cyprus, where Muslims arrived in 647AD. From there, we travel through the continent ā visiting places such as Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain ā encountering red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings. We meet forgotten Muslim pioneers, such as Abbas Ibn Firnas who gave us flight and Ibn Sina who gave us modern medicine. We see the Islam-inspired mudejar art of fourteenth-century Christians in Spain, and how such cross fertilisation birthed Europeās āRenaissanceā. We discover the long-forgotten tombs of European Muslims who knew the Prophet Muhammad, and the author ā award-winning writer Tharik Hussain ā becomes the first Muslim in over 900 years to pray inside the remains of a nameless Sicilian Mosque.
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To remedy Europeās Islamic amnesia, this ambitious history reveals that Islam is no side show to Western culture ā but rather has been integral to its development over 1,400 years.
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Tharik Hussain
Hardback, 432 pages
9780241742822
Ā
A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History
Ā
This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean.
Ā
Our odyssey begins in the little-known Sufi lodges in Cyprus, where Muslims arrived in 647AD. From there, we travel through the continent ā visiting places such as Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain ā encountering red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings. We meet forgotten Muslim pioneers, such as Abbas Ibn Firnas who gave us flight and Ibn Sina who gave us modern medicine. We see the Islam-inspired mudejar art of fourteenth-century Christians in Spain, and how such cross fertilisation birthed Europeās āRenaissanceā. We discover the long-forgotten tombs of European Muslims who knew the Prophet Muhammad, and the author ā award-winning writer Tharik Hussain ā becomes the first Muslim in over 900 years to pray inside the remains of a nameless Sicilian Mosque.
Ā
To remedy Europeās Islamic amnesia, this ambitious history reveals that Islam is no side show to Western culture ā but rather has been integral to its development over 1,400 years.
