# Muslim Europe

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- Book: [Muslim Europe](https://www.bookquiver.com/tharik-hussain/muslim-europe) ([Muslim Europe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tharik-hussain/muslim-europe.md))
- Authors: [Tharik Hussain](https://www.bookquiver.com/tharik-hussain)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0597-543-8
- Published: 2025-12-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean. 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 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. To 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.