Tharik Hussain

Muslim Britain & Ireland

A Travel Guide to Sites of Islamic Heritage & Culture. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 296 Seiten
ISBN 1804693030
EAN 9781804693032
Veröffentlicht 7. Januar 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Globe Pequot Press
27,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Travel guidebook to Muslim Britain and Ireland. Expert advice and travel information about historic and contemporary Muslim heritage and culture. Features London, Woking, Brighton, Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin and Belfast. Explains the impact of Islamic culture on the region. Offers advice for Muslims on travelling safely and mosque etiquette for non-Muslims.

Portrait

Tharik Hussain (tharikhussain.co.uk) is an author and journalist specialising in Muslim heritage and culture. His pioneering book, Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe won the Adele Evans Award for the best travel narrative of 2022. It was also shortlisted for the 2022 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award; longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize in Non-Fiction and named a 'book of the year' or 'travel book of the year' by, among others, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, Newsweek and the Washington Post. Hussain's guidebooks cover Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Thailand, London and Britain. He created Britain's very first Muslim heritage trails and has developed Muslim trails across Europe, USA and Asia. He has produced award-winning radio for the BBC World Service on America's earliest mosques and has published on hidden Muslim heritage in The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller and The Sunday Telegraph.