Throughout the Islamic world, poetry has played a significant role, not only...
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There are times and spaces that are considered more sacred or blessed...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by SACRED FOOTSTEPS (@sacredfootsteps) A poet once said: Too slight for the praise of the Chosen One is gold calligraphy, Written on...
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...
Centered around al-Aqsa compound and the old city of Jerusalem, Ramadan celebrations in Palestine are like no other. The streets are lit up with colorful lanterns known as fawanis; the...
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...
I remember visiting the Jameel Gallery in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum...
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.
Zirrar presents an analysis of modern travel photography using the work of Edward Said and Orientalism. He demonstrates how Orientalist tropes portraying 'natives' are still being used in travel photography today, including in the work of well-known photographers, and endorsed by publications such as National Geographic.
Our last stop on our trip to Kenya lay just off its...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection Droves of men, in traditional Tunisian garb, flooded the entrances of a café from every direction, beads in...
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 visiting as a Muslim traveller There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most aesthetically...
