There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most aesthetically pleasing building I’d ever seen, but there...
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Safi ibn Vali’s Mughal Hajj maps The Salamat Ras departed Surat in India on the 20th September 1676, carrying hundreds of pilgrims...
The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy upon him, says in his Aphorisms (al-Hikam), “Let...
Historic photos of Palestine from the 19th and 20th centuries
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky....
Photomechanical images of Damascus and the Umayyad Mosque captured between 1867 and 1900. See also: 19th century photos from Algeria...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the ancient streets of Jerusalem, towards the Sacred Sanctuary...
Madina al-Munawarra, the Radiant City of the Prophet
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: how do I visit the Blessed Tree? For...
The Day of Arafat marks the climax of the Hajj. For hundreds of years, pilgrims have congregated on the plain,...
“The area between my house and my minbar is one of the gardens of Paradise…” Hadith For centuries upon centuries,...
