Ibn Fadlan, a religious scholar in the tenth century, underwent a voyage to the kingdom of the Volga Bulghars in...
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“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white man in his early 50s wanders into Sarajevo’s...
In the remote village of Kiselchovo, tucked away in Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains, a small mosque without a minaret stood quietly,...
As soon as we started seeing the signs for Mostar on the outstretched Bosnian highway, my heart skipped a beat. We...
How Abdülmecid II tried to rewrite Islamic history with a new caliphate in the Nizamate of Hyderabad. “I am not...
Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain is published by Bradt Guides. It has been Longlisted for The Ballie Gifford...
As it gradually begins to dawn on consumers that food doesn’t magically appear on supermarket shelves, the histories of those...
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.
“Islam and Europe”, don’t quite fit, right? One doesn’t belong in the other apparently. “Islam and Muslims should leave Europe!” say extremists...
Bosnia is one of the unique crossroads and political hotspots of the world. With the memory of a brutal genocide...
While unearthing a romantic little tale in the woods of Lithuania, Tharik Hussain encounters someone taking his own 'sacred footsteps'
“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
