The famed Quran reciter and specialist in maqāmāt (modalities of Arabic music) Uthman al-Mawsili...
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Daleel al-Khayrāt (The Guide to Goodness) is a groundbreaking documentary series that...
Throughout history, from sultans and scholars to warriors and commoners, Muslim men have worn head coverings not just simply out of custom or practicality, but also to denote rank, affiliation,...
Throughout the Islamic world, poetry has played a significant role, not only...
There are times and spaces that are considered more sacred or blessed...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by SACRED FOOTSTEPS (@sacredfootsteps) A poet once said: Too slight for the praise of the Chosen One is gold calligraphy, Written on...
It’s a warm evening in the small Senegalese village of Medina Baye....
In a little known corner of an Indian metropolis lies a thriving...
Centered around al-Aqsa compound and the old city of Jerusalem, Ramadan celebrations in Palestine are like no other. The streets are lit up with colorful lanterns known as fawanis; the...
The ‘Dalā’il al-Khayrāt’ of East Africa and it’s Republication Journey إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِيِّۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ صَلُّواْ عَلَيۡهِ وَسَلِّمُواْ تَسۡلِيمًا Indeed, Allāh and His...
The Dala’il al-Khayrat, a collection of prayers and blessings upon the Prophet...
Listen to the audio version of this article featuring audio extracts of the poems mentioned in the text: Podcast Ep 32 KHAYAL DIARIES | Divine Love & Sufi Poetry of Punjab...
Over the course of my life, whenever I visited Pakistan, it was...
While coffee shops are a central element of European culture, (Viennese kaffeehäuser have been deemed an intangible cultural heritage element by UNESCO) Europeans, including Italians and Greeks, owe their rich coffee customs to sharing the Mediterranean with the Arab and African worlds.
Our last stop on our trip to Kenya lay just off its coast. The Lamu Archipelago, a group of small islands, are situated 350km from Mombasa and bear the traces of...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
Ali Abdelaziz Ben Saad explores the influence of the Ottoman coffee-houses of Tunis and the connections between coffee and spirituality.
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white man in his early 50s wanders into Sarajevo’s Gazi Huzrev Beg Mosque courtyard and half sits, half leans against...
Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and...
