| Description |
xxiii, 502 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
22 Personalities from The Early Period: Abd al-Rahman I ; Ziryab ; Ibn Firnas ; Abd al-Rahman III ; Abulcasis ; Almanzor ; Ibn Hazm ; Wallada bint al-Mustakfi ; Avenzoar ; Avempace ; Dreses ; Abubacer ; Averroes ; Ibn Jubayr ; Bitar ; Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi ; Khayr al-Din Barbarossa ; Gazi Husrev Bey ; Roxelana ; Hasan Kafi Prusac ; Safiye Sultan ; Evliya Celebi -- 28 Personalities From the Modern Period: Ayuba Sulaiman Diallo ; Lord Henry Stanley of Alderley ; Alexander Russell Webb ; Ismail Bey Gaspirali ; William Henry Quilliam ; Philippe Grenier ; Lady Evelyn Cobbold ; Mehmed Dzemaludin Causevic ; Hafiz Ali Korca ; John Yahya Parkinson ; Marmaduke William Pickthall ; Musa Jarullah ; Yusuf Ziyaeddin Ezheri ; Julius Germanus ; Harry St John Philby ; Rene Guenon ; Leopold Weiss ; Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi ; Knud Holmboe ; Mehmed Handzic ; Martin Lings ; Husein Dozo ; Noor Inayat Khan ; Thomas Ballantine Irving ; Alija Izetbegovic ; Lois Ibsen al-Faruqi ; W. D. Muhammad ; Muhammad Ali -- Further 25 Personalities in the Honourable Mentions section: Al-Hakam II ; Ibn Hayyan ; Ibn al-Arabi ; Al-Qurtubi ; Al-Gharnati ; Ibn al-Khatib ; Koprulu Mehmed Pasha ; Jozef Z. Bem ; Amherst D. Tyssen ; Sami Frasheri ; Lord Headley ; Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin ; J. W. Lovegrove ; Ivan Agueli ; William Richard Williamson ; Sir Charles Archibald Hamilton ; Isabelle Eberhardt ; Khalid Sheldrake ; Muhammad Hamidullah ; Knut Bernstrom ; Smail Balic ; Adil Bey Zulfikarpasic ; Zaki Badawi ; Malcolm X ; Khurram Murad -- Conclusion ; Brief Chronology of Western Islam ; Select Bibliography |
| Summary |
The contributions of some extraordinary Muslims of the West in recent history is surprising, revealing and, most importantly, worth celebrating. |
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Muslims -- Western countries.
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Islam -- Western countries.
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Civilization, Western -- Islamic influences.
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Muslims -- Biography.
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Western countries -- History.
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Biographies.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781847741127 (paperback) |
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1847741126 (paperback) |
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