Amazing Muslims Who Changed the World

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We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. Please note: This is not an anthology but a non-fiction text found in the junior fiction section, compiled by one author. The content and ambition of the show remains the same: to give every pupil the opportunity to engage with authors and illustrators in their own classroom using the power of the internet. MAYHEM MISSION (Knights Of, 2021) was her debut children's fiction book, and went on to win the Tower Hamlets Book award 2022. Really enjoyed this book, as did the kids - my eldest remembers the names of all the people in the book and their stories ma sha Allah (unlike my own good self haha.

What a wonderfully empowering message, and that sentiment captures just how joyous and liberating this book will be for so many people. Ibtihaj Muhammad - the Olympic and World Champion fencer and the first American to compete in the games wearing a hijab. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.

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If you were registered for the newsletter, you will now receive the Puffin Schools newsletter, which is filled with all the latest information about accompanying resources and upcoming shows.Ibtihaj Muhammad: the Olympic and World Champion fencer and the first American to compete in the games wearing a hijab. She married the sultan of Tétouan, and after her husband died ruled over her people alone, bowing to nobody. The stories are indeed summary of summaries hitting directly at the most important lessons from the lives of the individuals in the book. She is also the author of THE DASTARDLY DUO (2022) and THE BIG BREAKOUT (2023), as well as the widely celebrated AMAZING MUSLIMS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD (Puffin, 2020).

So inspiring and insightful, this book I feel is a wonderful opportunity to for Muslim and Non-Muslim readers alike to read about notable Muslims whom made their mark on the world. Sayyida Al-Hurra (1485 – 1561) was born in the Spanish kingdom of Andalus, but she and her family fled to Morocco when a Catholic army arrived on the Islamic nation’s shores.

Some of the illustrations are better than others, and felt there was disparity in the illustrations used within each chapter, realised this was because several illustrators were used for this book. I learned so much: there were a few people I was familiar with but not many, so I loved learning more about the people covered in the book (Noor Inayat Khan was someone I had read about before, but was so glad to read more about; and I don't think I'd heard of al-Jahiz at all, despite the fact that he was developing ideas on evolution centuries before Darwin was even born!