When the Muslims Defeated Dracula
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ This is the story of two brothers who could not be more different. One was given the moniker, “the Fair” and the other became known as Dracula. Both of them were princes of Wallachia, which is part of modern Romania but then, it was the Kingdom of Hungary. There was a time, when much of what is modern Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, the Balkans, the Crimea and almost all of southern Russia was Muslim. This was the Muslim heartland. And they produced many great leaders, scholars and saints. This was the world of the Qadiriyyah and the Naqshbandiyyah and the Khalwatiyyah . And all that is dust. These Muslims did not convert out of Islam. Millions and millions of them were killed or driven off until only vestiges of their civilisation remains. The only Muslim communities to be found in mainland Europe in large numbers are in Bosnia & Herzegovina and al-Baniya, or Albania...