Lost Islamic History - Book Review
Centuries of Muslim past narrated within the pages of a concise book
If one made a Prezi presentation, the kind that gives a spatial overview of the presentation and then uses animation to zoom into a particular part, of the timeline of major eras in the history of Muslim civilization you would get something that reads like the book the Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb. The book leads the reader through the history of Islam beginning from its origins up to the present day, through a brief and easy-to-read text.
The author raises questions that a typical person who practices a religion might find himself thinking about in the present day.
Alkhateeb begins with a geopolitical description of Arabia before the prophethood of Prophet Muhammad in 610 CE, which helps explain why the message of Islam was able to gain a foothold at a time when the Roman and Persian Empires were dominating the world. The major events in the life of Prophet Muhammad which influenced the spread of his message are narrated. Including the hostilities and persecution that early Muslims had to face, the migration to Medina where the first Muslim state was set up, and the subsequent…
