Ibn Fadlan, a religious scholar in the tenth century, underwent a voyage to the kingdom of the Volga Bulghars in...
“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
“Islam and Europe”, don’t quite fit, right? One doesn’t belong in the other apparently. “Islam and Muslims should leave Europe!” say extremists...
Remember when there was barely such a thing as a documentary for an English-speaking Muslim audience? Or if there was,...
While unearthing a romantic little tale in the woods of Lithuania, Tharik Hussain encounters someone taking his own 'sacred footsteps'
“Go to Mangalia, which is the Kaaba Mecca of the wandering poor people!” I had expected many things from the little...
Visiting Lapland to see the Northern Lights: What you need to know as a Muslim traveller The Aurora Borealis, known in...
London. The name itself conjures up images of red buses, black cabs and three-piece suits. As a major global hub,...
‘Discover untold stories’, reads the slogan emblazoned on the back of our tour guide’s t-shirt. With a microphone in hand...
One of my main intentions, actually probably my only intention, when visiting the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, was to make my way...
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white man in his early 50s wanders into Sarajevo’s...
According to a 1925 guidebook, Lisbon is “a fair vision in a dream, clear-cut against a bright blue sky which the...