Firas Alkhateeb

Firas Alkhateeb is an American Muslim educator, historian, and author based in Chicago, Illinois. He studied history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has taught Islamic history at the secondary level. He is the author of Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past, first published by Hurst and Co. in 2014 and subsequently by Oxford University Press, which presents an accessible narrative of Islamic civilization from the Prophet's era through the modern period for a general readership. He is also the founder of LostIslamicHistory.com, an educational platform dedicated to making Islamic history accessible to a broad audience. His writing aims to reconnect Muslim communities with their historical and civilizational heritage.