If we take a 400 metre walk from the bustling Sultan Ahmed tram station – the gateway to the two...
“Go to Mangalia, which is the Kaaba Mecca of the wandering poor people!” I had expected many things from the little...
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.
Remember when there was barely such a thing as a documentary for an English-speaking Muslim audience? Or if there was,...
“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
While unearthing a romantic little tale in the woods of Lithuania, Tharik Hussain encounters someone taking his own 'sacred footsteps'
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.
Ramadan is the month of fasting, worship and Qur’an. It is a time to recalibrate the heart and redirect one’s...
According to a 1925 guidebook, Lisbon is “a fair vision in a dream, clear-cut against a bright blue sky which the...
As it gradually begins to dawn on consumers that food doesn’t magically appear on supermarket shelves, the histories of those...
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white man in his early 50s wanders into Sarajevo’s...
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