Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its cobblestoned streets lead them to a compound accentuated...
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Muazzam Mir speaks to fellow Kenyans, activist and founder of Halal Safaris, Samia Bwana and conservationist and Mandela Washington Fellow, Raabia Hawa, about the conservation of wildlife and the environment, specifically from a Muslim perspective. They discuss the responsibility of travellers to ensure their travel practices are ethical and not harmful.
If you’ve been following Mustafa Briggs on social media for the last few years, you will have seen him promoting...
Mohammed Khan on visiting Imam Jazuli and the 7 Saints of Marrakesh For many European Muslims, particularly from the UK,...
“The thesis that men change at the same time that they change the world has never been so manifest as...
“There will then be a perfect correspondence between the interior and the exterior, and the work produced can then become...
Beyond Bilal: Black History in Islam, is a presentation and lecture series delivered by Mustafa Briggs that aims to explore and uncover the deep rooted relationship between Islam and Black History. From Black Prophets and prominent figures in the Qur'an, to the unknown black Sahaba and scholars of the early generations, the history of Islam in Africa, and the legacy of contemporary African Islamic scholarship and its role in the International Relations of the Muslim World.
On the hills in and around Cape Town you will find dozens of Muslim graves, the oldest of which are...
In the centre of Cairo lies a city within a city. With its thousand year old walls, Islamic or Medieval Cairo, once the seat of power in the region, consists of the oldest parts of the city established under the Fatimids. Among these historic streets, beginning at Bab al-Futuh in the north stretching down to Bab Zuweila in the south, is a 10th century road that boasts the highest concentration of medieval architecture in the Islamic world.
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one comes across a peculiar sight. Not very far...
It was a blistering hot day right in the middle of the Mauritanian Sahara desert, and my friends and I...
It was the hottest summer of my life. I arrived in Fes after a five-hour train journey from Casablanca. At...
