Meetings with Remarkable Muslims - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 090787164X ISBN 13: 9780907871644

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

This is a collection of travel writing celebrating friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the Islamic world and the way in which it continues to inspire, bemuse and enrich the western imagination. It includes portraits of scholars and religious leaders, pop stars, writers, sultans, smugglers, fishermen, tear away drivers and medieval scholars, from a wide variety of voices - well-known travel writers, sculptors, film-makers, art historians, aid workers, diplomats and translators. It is dedicated to the millions who marched against the war in Iraq, and who wish that Britain's other voice be heard. Serialised in "The Independent", it evokes interest from review sections of broadsheets and editorial interest in the charitable aspect of book. Royalties from the sale of this title are being donated to buy school books for the children of Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan, whose education has been so interrupted by recent wars and violence.

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Review

'Every political leader in the western world should be forced to read this book.' -- Nick Smith, Geographical

From the Publisher

Meetings with Remarkable Muslims arose out of the marches in London against the invasion of Iraq. Realising that the lies, half-truths and manufactured fears by which this war had been sold to the public were backed by the images of the Islamic world latched onto by our media – of beareded fanatics, suicide bombers and veiled gunmen – it seemed important to offer a broader, truer picture. As anyone who has travelled regularly within the Muslim world will know, this perception is wilfully – even perhaps maliciously – false.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 090787164X
• ISBN 13: 9780907871644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Baring Rose, Rogerson Barnaby