Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The name Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi may not be familiar...
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At the entrance to Soportújar, a village in the Alpujarra mountains south of Granada, lies a cave in which lived...
How Abdülmecid II tried to rewrite Islamic history with a new caliphate in the Nizamate of Hyderabad. “I am not...
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A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably come across many graves and mausoleums. For the...
Omar Rais speaks to Alyssa Ratkewitch, a third generation Tatar Muslim living in Brooklyn and the vice president of the board at the historic Brooklyn Mosque. Also joining the conversation is travel writer, journalist and broadcaster, Tharik Hussain who specialises in the Muslim heritage of the West. Together they explore the migratory roots of Brooklyn’s Tatar community, the longest serving mosque in the United States, and discuss the identity-shaping of Muslims in the West.
“Go to Mangalia, which is the Kaaba Mecca of the wandering poor people!” I had expected many things from the little...
At the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Spain's Andalusia province, sits the historic city of Granada. For almost 250 years, between 1238 and 1492, the city, then part of the Nasrid Kingdom, stood as the last remaining Muslim stronghold in the peninsula. Under the Nasrids, it became a hub for economic prosperity, cultural influence and intellectual development.
Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain is published by Bradt Guides. It has been Longlisted for The Ballie Gifford...
“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
Bosnia is one of the unique crossroads and political hotspots of the world. With the memory of a brutal genocide...
“Islam and Europe”, don’t quite fit, right? One doesn’t belong in the other apparently. “Islam and Muslims should leave Europe!” say extremists...
