I've made no secret of my fondness for profile collections. I love to read about figures left out of my history education and the impact they made on the world. And this collection provides us with a wide variety of influences: athletes, scientists, philosophers artists, political activists and more. The early section has a special focus on mathematics and the sharing of information, the structures on which many of our educational systems were built that would not be possible without Muslim influence. Some of these figures will be quite familiar to all readers (Muhammad Ali, Malala, and such) while others will probably be new but no less inspiring as a result. These profiles have enough detail to feel informative but not so much as to be overwhelming. A solid read.
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