The novelist Flannery O’Connor famously wrote: “An artist prays by creating”. The lasting bastions of Andalusia, Islamic calligraphy and religious...
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The Dala’il al-Khayrat, a collection of prayers and blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ has been recited in homes and...
The famed Quran reciter and specialist in maqāmāt (modalities of Arabic music) Uthman al-Mawsili was born in 1854 in Iraq during a...
Zara talks to author and Arabist Diana Darke about her most recent book Stealing From The Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe. Diana explains how cultural exchanges between Europe and Islamic Syria shaped Gothic architecture, and why this has become a point of controversy in Europe today.
Traditional Muslim architects were guided by cosmic patterns and principles which shaped their designs and tastes. Tawhid or ‘Divine Unity’...
Al-Haram al-Sharif is an ancient expanse situated at the centre of Bait al-Maqdis, the sacred precinct in Jerusalem. Within this...
Constructed around the middle of the twelfth century as a church by the Crusaders, the Great Mosque of Gaza, or...
Safi ibn Vali’s Mughal Hajj maps The Salamat Ras departed Surat in India on the 20th September 1676, carrying hundreds of pilgrims...
