The Most Beautiful Mihrab

Overview:

"The Most Beautiful Mihrab" takes you back 1,000 years to a time when Islam was the main religion from Spain to China’s borders. In the 10th century CE, there were three Islamic caliphates: the Umayyads in Spain, the Fatimids in Egypt, and the Abbasids in Iraq. The book focuses on Cordoba, Spain, which was a shining center of learning under the Umayyads. It tells the amazing true story of how the Byzantine Christian emperor in Constantinople and the Muslim caliph in Cordoba worked together to create the stunning mihrab in Cordoba’s Great Mosque, making it the most beautiful in the world.

Key Features:

Shares a real story of teamwork between a Christian emperor and a Muslim caliph in the 10th century.

Describes the golden age of Cordoba, a major learning hub in the West back then.

Explains how the Great Mosque of Cordoba was made even more beautiful with its famous mihrab.

Highlights the friendly ties between Cordoba’s Umayyads and the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople.

Gives a glimpse of Islamic history when Muslims ruled a vast area from Spain to North Africa and beyond.