Tharik Hussain is an award-winning British-Bangladeshi author, historian and travel writer whose work has brought greater attention to the Muslim heritage of Europe and the West. Combining travel, historical research and heritage interpretation, he challenges conventional narratives that treat Islam as foreign to Europe, highlighting instead centuries of Muslim presence and cultural exchange. Hussain is best known for Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe, his exploration of the indigenous Muslim communities of the Western Balkans. The book won the 2022 Adele Evans Award, was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He also created Britain’s first Muslim heritage trails and produced award-winning BBC radio on America’s earliest Muslim communities. His 2025 book, Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History, expands this work across the continent, tracing Islam’s deep and often overlooked role in shaping European history and culture.