Our upcoming FRH Talk “(Re)discovering Europe’s Islamic religious heritage: 1,400 years of history and what it means today” will feature Tharik Hussain, author, travel writer and journalist specialising in Muslim heritage. During this session we will explore the presence of Islam in Europe and its contribution to art, culture and the meaning of Islamic heritage in today’s society.
The event will take place on Thursday, 25 April from 12:00 – 13:00 CEST
About our guest speaker
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 for 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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