Throughout history, from sultans and scholars to warriors and commoners, Muslim men...
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Throughout the Islamic world, poetry has played a significant role, not only...
There are times and spaces that are considered more sacred or blessed than others; times and spaces of increased baraka, when and where the veil between this world and the...
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It’s a warm evening in the small Senegalese village of Medina Baye....
In a little known corner of an Indian metropolis lies a thriving Yemeni oasis, complete with harees, gahwah, and mandi. It’s Sunday morning, and the Bin Habtoor family is hard...
Centered around al-Aqsa compound and the old city of Jerusalem, Ramadan celebrations...
The ‘Dalā’il al-Khayrāt’ of East Africa and it’s Republication Journey إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِيِّۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ صَلُّواْ عَلَيۡهِ وَسَلِّمُواْ تَسۡلِيمًا Indeed, Allāh and His...
The Dala’il al-Khayrat, a collection of prayers and blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ has been recited in homes and zawiyas, mosques and maqams around the world ever since it...
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Over the course of my life, whenever I visited Pakistan, it was...
While coffee shops are a central element of European culture, (Viennese kaffeehäuser have been deemed an intangible cultural heritage element by UNESCO) Europeans, including Italians and Greeks, owe their rich coffee customs to sharing the Mediterranean with the Arab and African worlds.
Our last stop on our trip to Kenya lay just off its...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
Ali Abdelaziz Ben Saad explores the influence of the Ottoman coffee-houses of Tunis and the connections between coffee and spirituality.
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white...
Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and...
