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Minarets in the Mountains

A Journey into Muslim Europe

Pocket
Engelsk
Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature)
Minarets in the Mountains
Minarets in the Mountains
  • Forfatter: Tharik Hussain
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 352
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature)
  • EAN: 9781784778286
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Hussain, Tharik
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A magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn''t. Muslim Europe. Winner of a BGTW Members'' Excellence Award: Travel Narrative Book of the Year - The Adele Evans Award. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021. Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Londoner Tharik Hussain sets off with his wife and young daughters around the Western Balkans, home to the largest indigenous Muslim population in Europe, and explores the regions of Eastern Europe where Islam has shaped places and people for more than half a millennium. Encountering blonde-haired, blue-eyed Muslims, visiting mystical Islamic lodges clinging to the side of mountains, and praying in mosques older than the Sistine Chapel, he paints a picture of a hidden Muslim Europe, a vibrant place with a breathtaking hi