PIO publishes Turkish edition of ”Muslim Places of Worship in Cyprus”

The Cyprus Press and Information Office (PIO) has recently published the Turkish edition of the book ''Muslim Places of Worship in Cyprus'' (Kibris’taki Musluman Ibadet Yerleri).

The 108-page publication offers a brief historical context of the presence of Islam in Cyprus through the Muslim places of worship on the island with a great numbers of photographs.

The book, inter alia, highlights the rich cultural heritage of Cyprus, which bears the marks of various cultures, including Islam, with the first section offering information about the strategic geographic location and the history of Cyprus, with specific reference to the first contact of Cyprus with Islam, through the Arab Raids and the co-existence of Christians and Muslims on the island for the first time.

In his foreword, the Egyptian scholar Dr. Tarek Radwan, a professor at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, states that ''the present volume highlights the reality of peaceful co-existence that prevailed for centuries between the Christian Greek and Muslim Turkish ethnic communities. It shows the extent of integration and interaction between these communities […].

The book has already been published in a revised English and Arabic edition, while editions in other languages will follow.