“To celebrate, the Viennese bakers made for days crescent-shaped (Turkish emblem) rolls. Later, the French adopted the practice, and christened the name from crescent to famous CROISSANT! (“croix” in French means “cross”)”
“Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity”
As far back as 1996, the distinguished scholar W. Montgomery Watt described Dr Akbar Ahmed as ‘a contemporary spokesman for Islam’. That epithet remains apt even now but, based on the sum total of his writings and work, he is widely respected today as an anthropologist, teacher, researcher, scholar in comparative religion, a committed public intellectual promoting inter-faith harmony and a leading authority on contemporary Islam.
by EJAZ RAHIM