{"product_id":"muslim-europe-tharik-hussain-9780241742822","title":"Muslim Europe","description":"'A book I’ve been longing for someone to write and Hussain is the man to write it’ William Dalrymple\n‘Uncovers a world of which few are fully aware’ Colin Thubron\nThis revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean.\nOur odyssey begins in the little-known Sufi lodges in Cyprus, where Muslims arrived in 647AD. From there, we travel through the continent – visiting places such as Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain – 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 Europe’s ‘Renaissance’. We discover the long-forgotten tombs of European Muslims who knew the Prophet Muhammad, and the author – award-winning writer Tharik Hussain – becomes the first Muslim in over 900 years to pray inside the remains of a nameless Sicilian Mosque.\nTo remedy Europe’s Islamic amnesia, this ambitious history reveals that Islam is no side show to Western culture – but rather has been integral to its development over 1,400 years.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51005268328736,"sku":"9780241742822","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780241742822.jpg?v=1781574940","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/muslim-europe-tharik-hussain-9780241742822","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}