Meetings with Remarkable Muslims

Name: Meetings with Remarkable Muslims
Author: Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring
ISBN: 090787164X

by Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring

Meetings with Remarkable Muslims is a collection of personal reminiscences of friendships and chance encounters which have left an indelible mark on the memory of the author. Throwing a bridge across the cultural divide, it shows how immeasurably richer our lives are for sharing different cultural traditions what a source of inspiration they can be. This diverse collection of writers, a number of whom would normally describe themselves as something quite other sculptor, film-maker, development consultant draws together a world which stretches from Morocco in the west to India in the east, and which encompasses campaigners, drivers, professors, museum curators, single mothers, nomads, embroiderers, smugglers and widows.…

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Ziauddin Sardar

"This book is an anthology of stories written by people who have travelled to Muslim countries and met interesting people on their way. Most of the Muslims described in the book are remarkable only in the fact that they are very ordinary. They are just farmers, taxi drivers, asylum seekers, cleaners, musicians, mothers or teachers. Yet they are living extraordinary lives. Take the story of ‘Mr F’ who survives the Taliban in Afghanistan, only to suffer unmitigated humiliation as an asylum-seeker in Britain, or Youssou N’Dour who rises above poverty in his native Senegal, to travel to France and woo people with his devotional Islamic songs."

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