Muslim Europe

<p><b>''A book I¿ve been longing for someone to write and Hussain is the man to write it¿ William Dalrymple<br><br>¿Uncovers a world of which few are fully aware¿ Colin Thubron</b><br><br>This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean.<br><br>Our 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 <i>mudejar </i>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 Hu