Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The name Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi may not be familiar...
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A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably come across many graves and mausoleums. For the...
Ibn Fadlan, a religious scholar in the tenth century, underwent a voyage to the kingdom of the Volga Bulghars in...
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.
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“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
Visiting Lapland to see the Northern Lights: What you need to know as a Muslim traveller The Aurora Borealis, known in...
While unearthing a romantic little tale in the woods of Lithuania, Tharik Hussain encounters someone taking his own 'sacred footsteps'
