Safi ibn Vali’s Mughal Hajj maps The Salamat Ras departed Surat in India on the 20th September 1676, carrying hundreds of pilgrims...
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The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy upon him, says in his Aphorisms (al-Hikam), “Let...
Historic photos of Palestine from the 19th and 20th centuries
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky....
Photomechanical images of Damascus and the Umayyad Mosque captured between 1867 and 1900. See also: 19th century photos from Algeria...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the ancient streets of Jerusalem, towards the Sacred Sanctuary...
Madina al-Munawarra, the Radiant City of the Prophet
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: how do I visit the Blessed Tree? For...
In the last few years, the number of Muslims visiting Jerusalem and Palestine has steadily increased. There are likely to...
