Aashiq al-Rasul 5 ISLAMIC SECRETS OF EUROPE My fascination - TopicsExpress



          

Aashiq al-Rasul 5 ISLAMIC SECRETS OF EUROPE My fascination with the hidden Islamic heritage of Europe probably first began the day my brother returned from a failed effort to drive across Europe. The car he had hired with friends gave up its ghost somewhere in the south of Spain near the Rock of Gibraltar. I was about 13 and his efforts to educate me on Spain’s Islamic legacy fell on deaf ears. This was in the days when Spain’s patron saint, St James was still being lauded as a Moor-slayer (Muslim killer) and the prospect of holidaying there conjured up images of overweight sunburnt Brits ‘larging’ it on the Costa Dorada. It is little wonder that the only thing I recalled from my introduction to Europe’s Islamic heritage is my brother shrieking “The Moors! The Moors … are coming!” Something he had heard during a retelling of Pre-Reconquest Spanish history. thewanderingmusulman.wordpress/2014/03/13/5-islamic-secrets-of-europe/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:55:39 +0000

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