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Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and visiting as a Muslim traveller There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most aesthetically...
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Asha Ahmad crouches around a symbolic green tomb of Ali Hamdon, one of the 44 Islamic scholars who arrived in the Ethiopian city of Harar from South Arabia in the...
Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its...
One of the peculiar sensations seasoned wayfarers fail to mention, as you pack your bags in preparation for your journey to heaven-scented-sacred-lands, is what happens to you when you return...
Upon entering the maqam of Sunan Gunung Jati in Cirebon, one dives...
Al-Hujeireh mosque sits quietly, nestled among its neighbours, seeking little attention. Walk...
Zara Choudhary on visiting the Companions (Sahaba) of Jordan Memory is a fickle thing; clear one minute, hazy or gone the next- but I remember the perfume clearly; a beautiful,...
It was a blistering hot day right in the middle of the...
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A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably come across many graves and mausoleums. For the keen-eyed, it will be a journey through Islamic history, a...
Muhammad Ayaz Ramjaun visits the sufi saints of Mauritius White sand beaches...
For centuries, the dargah (zawiya/tomb) of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja...
Each year in Rabi al-Awwal, the small island of Lamu plays host to a three day Maulid festival. Participants arrive from all over East Africa to take part in the...
Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The...
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white man in his early 50s wanders into Sarajevo’s Gazi Huzrev Beg Mosque courtyard and half sits, half leans against...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
On the hills in and around Cape Town, you will find 300 year old Muslim graves belonging to notable individuals who arrived on the southern tip of the African continent in chains, as slaves or political prisoners of colonisers. They brought nothing with them, except faith in their hearts and the remembrance of God on their tongues.
As soon as I stepped out of the taxi I knew I had chosen the wrong time of day. Without a cloud in the sky, the sun was beating down...
A journey through the Mauritanian wilderness to visit Murabit al-Hajj Night was...
Mohammed Khan on visiting Imam Jazuli and the 7 Saints of Marrakesh...
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one comes across a peculiar sight. Not very far from the largest national park in the country, the ominously...
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Mustafa Briggs on spiritual seclusion in The Gambia The small coastal town...
The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy upon him, says in his Aphorisms (al-Hikam), “Let not an act of worship make you joyous because it...
The cultural fabric of Kochi has been elegantly woven by the beauty...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the...
Ramadan is the month of fasting, worship and Qur’an. It is a time to recalibrate the heart and redirect one’s focus towards Him ﷻ by abstaining from food and drink,...
