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A travel journal or blog, is not a new fad. Persians called it a safarnama, a travelogue. Nasir Khusrow, a Persian...
In 1947, Pakistan emerged on the world map with a predominantly Muslim population. However, before partition, a number of other religions were practiced in the region, including Hinduism. Hinduism first established its roots, and was adopted by the Indus civilisation, between 2300 BC and 1500 BC. Some of the earliest Hindu temples once stood in what is now Pakistan; their traces can still be seen in the ruins that exist today, in varying degrees of dilapidation.
Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and visiting as a Muslim traveller There it stood,...
For centuries, the dargah (zawiya/tomb) of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz, has attracted rulers and lay-men alike....
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: how do I visit the Blessed Tree? For...
Over the course of my life, whenever I visited Pakistan, it was always to visit family in Karachi. For whatever...
Ali Abbas Ahmadi visits the Paigah Tombs of Hyderabad After offering his prayers each morning, Rahmatullah settles down among the...
Back in 2010, I spent a year in Syria, studying Arabic in Damascus. While there, I visited Bosra in the south...
In 1861, Egyptian army engineer and surveyor, arrived in the Hijaz by train. He had with him a large wet...
In this episode, Zara Choudhary revisits her journey to Adam’s Peak, a mountain in Sri Lanka visited by Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and Christians for its association with several religious figures, including the Prophet Adam.
