Traditional Muslim architects were guided by cosmic patterns and principles which shaped their designs and tastes. Tawhid or ‘Divine Unity’...
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Al-Shaykh al-Akbar, ‘The Greatest Master’ Muhyiddin Ibn al-ʿArabi (1165-1240) was born in Murcia, Andalusia in modern day Spain. The period...
Listen on iTunes | Listen on Spotify The Islamic sciences were once rooted in an underlying epistemic unity, that existed among all...
“The cannon compels the body, the school bewitches the soul” — Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure The most violent spectacles...
Listen on iTunes | Listen on Spotify A discussion on the need to reintroduce metaphysics based upon the Islamic conception of reality...
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt commented in his book, The Future of Islam, that Islam needs to “work out for itself a Reformation,”...
The famed Quran reciter and specialist in maqāmāt (modalities of Arabic music) Uthman al-Mawsili was born in 1854 in Iraq during a...
Those who have followed Sacred Footsteps for some time will know that one of the things we aim to do...
Something decisively shifted on October 7th for Muslims globally, as we began to realise that our pointless pursuit of personal...
Neither Napoleon nor Lenin and Marx are divinely inspired So do not be fooled by their theories But a book...
We begin with a key Quranic term, āyah, which we – almost always – translate as ‘verse’ in the Muslim scripture. However, this word also means ‘sign’ and herein emerges the crucial metaphysical node in our discourse. We find the following verse in (41:53): “We shall show them Our āyāt [signs/verses] in the horizons and in their own selves until it is clear to them that this is the truth.” But which meaning of āyāt (sg. āyah) is intended here: ‘verse’ or ‘sign’? Precisely both at the same time, because these two renditions are inseparable and intimately related.
The novelist Flannery O’Connor famously wrote: “An artist prays by creating”. The lasting bastions of Andalusia, Islamic calligraphy and religious...
