Muslim Britain - A Travel Guide to Sites of Islamic Heritage & Culture

Brand new from Bradt Guides is award-winning author Tharik Hussain’s Muslim Britain & Ireland, a unique, groundbreaking travel guidebook about the largely ignored historic and contemporary Muslim heritage and culture of the British Isles, accompanying readers to places that tell the story of Islam in the region.

List of contents

PART 1 Introduction 1 Back Information and History 2 Practical Information PART 2 3 London 4 The South of England 5 The Midlands 6 Wales 7 The North of England 8 Scotland 9 Ireland 10 Northern Ireland Appendices: Further Reading, Glossary and Index

About the author

Tharik Hussain (tharikhussain.co.uk) is an author and journalist specialising in Muslim heritage and culture. His pioneering book, Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe won the Adele Evans Award for the best travel narrative of 2022. It was also shortlisted for the 2022 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award; longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize in Non-Fiction and named a ‘book of the year’ or ‘travel book of the year’ by, among others, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, Newsweek and the Washington Post. Hussain’s guidebooks cover Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Thailand, London and Britain. He created Britain’s very first Muslim heritage trails and has developed Muslim trails across Europe, USA and Asia. He has produced award-winning radio for the BBC World Service on America’s earliest mosques and has published on hidden Muslim heritage in The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller and The Sunday Telegraph.

Product details

• Authors: Tharik Hussain
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.08.2026
• EAN: 9781804693032
• ISBN: 978-1-80469-303-2
• Subjects: TRAVEL / General, Travel & holiday guides, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Travel and holiday guides, Travel Guidebook, heritage trail;history;etiquette;community;, Belfast;Ahmadiyya;British Museum;V&A;, Tiger of Mysore;Banglatown;Qur'an;Hajj;Hajii;, chicken tikka masala;Islamic centres;, London;Woking;Brighton;Birmingham;Cambridge;, Islam;culture;religion;British Isles;mosque;, Islamic Centre;Yunus Emre;Peace Gardens;, Brighton Pavilion;the Raj;Balti Triangle;, Curry Mile;Central Cambridge Mosque;, Khwaja Kamal ud-Din;Ottomans;Mecca;Shah Jahan;, Cardiff;Manchester;Liverpool;Glasgow;Dublin;, Brick Lane;Edgware Road;Shah Jahan;