Meetings with Remarkable Muslims
A collection of first-person accounts by Muslims from across the world, edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring. Farmers, taxi drivers, cleaners, musicians, teachers and asylum seekers describe lives that turn out to be extraordinary, among them a man who survived the Taliban only to be humiliated by the British asylum system, and Youssou N’Dour’s route out of poverty in Senegal.
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Ziauddin Sardar
They are just farmers, taxi drivers, asylum seekers, cleaners, musicians, mothers or teachers. Yet they are living extraordinary lives. Take the story of ‘Mr F’ who survives the Taliban in Afghanistan, only to suffer unmitigated humiliation as an asylum-seeker in Britain, or Youssou N’Dour who rises above poverty in his native Senegal, to travel to France and woo people with his devotional Islamic songs.
Interview · November 2009
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