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 Do...

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.