JOIN US ON 25 APRIL 2024!
We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming FRH Talk “(Re)discovering Europe’s Islamic heritage: 1,400 years of history and what it means today“. Join us for an insightful session in which we will delve into the long presence of Islam in Europe and its often overlooked contributions to art, culture, architecture and religious heritage.
Featuring Tharik Hussain, a UK-based author, travel writer and journalist specialising in Muslim heritage, this online talk will be an excellent opportunity to broaden your knowledge of Europe’s diverse religious heritage, how the rich tapestry of Islamic heritage has helped shape the European cultural landscape and what its significance is in today’s society.
The event will take place on Thursday, 25 April from 12:00 to 13:00 CEST
Tharik Hussain
Tharik Hussain is an author, journalist and heritage activist. His work often serves to counter popular and authorised narratives. Tharik’s debut book, Minarets in the Mountains; A Journey into Muslim Europe, won the British Guild of Travel Writer’s Adele Evans Award for Travel book of the year. He has produced award-winning radio for the BBC World Service on America’s earliest mosques and developed Britain’s very first Muslim heritage trails in Woking, Surrey. He is also a Lonely Planet author for whom he specialises in marginalised narratives and most recently wrote the very first chapter to explore Muslim heritage in a guidebook to Britain. Tharik is an advisor to the Foundation of Jewish Heritage and the Institute of Islamic Art Thailand and a Fellow at the Royal Geographic Society and the University of Groningen’s Centre for Religion and Heritage.
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