{"product_id":"9780241742822","title":"Muslim Europe : A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hussain, Tharik \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/11\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241742822,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A book I’ve been longing for someone to write and Hussain is the man to write it’ William Dalrymple‘Uncovers a world of which few are fully aware’ Colin ThubronThis revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55823576465781,"sku":"9780241742822","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241742822.jpg?v=1755849713","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241742822","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}