Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
Upon entering the maqam of Sunan Gunung Jati in Cirebon, one dives...
Each year in Rabi al-Awwal, the small island of Lamu plays host to a three day Maulid festival. Participants arrive from all over East Africa to take part in the...
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white...
The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy...
Listen to the audio version of this article featuring audio extracts of the poems mentioned in the text: Podcast Ep 33 KHAYAL DIARIES | My Ancestral Past: Visiting the Gilanis in...
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: ...
Muhammad Ayaz Ramjaun visits the sufi saints of Mauritius White sand beaches...
Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its cobblestoned streets lead them to a compound accentuated by a gleaming white wall and a tall graceful tree...
A journey through the Mauritanian wilderness to visit Murabit al-Hajj Night was...
For centuries, the dargah (zawiya/tomb) of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz, has attracted rulers and lay-men alike. Both Muslims and non-Muslims, of all classes, have been known...
This is going to be the sort of messy opinion piece that...
The cultural fabric of Kochi has been elegantly woven by the beauty...
Mustafa Briggs on spiritual seclusion in The Gambia The small coastal town of Gunjur lies just an hour away from The Gambian capital Banjul. After a few minutes spent driving...
As soon as I stepped out of the taxi I knew I...
Al-Hujeireh mosque sits quietly, nestled among its neighbours, seeking little attention. Walk...
Mohammed Khan on visiting Imam Jazuli and the 7 Saints of Marrakesh For many European Muslims, particularly from the UK, Marrakesh has become the destination of choice when looking to...
Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The...
It was a blistering hot day right in the middle of the...
One of the peculiar sensations seasoned wayfarers fail to mention, as you pack your bags in preparation for your journey to heaven-scented-sacred-lands, is what happens to you when you return...
A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably...
Asha Ahmad crouches around a symbolic green tomb of Ali Hamdon, one of the 44 Islamic scholars who arrived in the Ethiopian city of Harar from South Arabia in the...
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one...
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...
An audio version of this article, complete with sound from the actual...
Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and visiting as a Muslim traveller There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most aesthetically...
On the hills in and around Cape Town, you will find 300 year old Muslim graves belonging to notable individuals who arrived on the southern tip of the African continent in chains, as slaves or political prisoners of colonisers. They brought nothing with them, except faith in their hearts and the remembrance of God on their tongues.
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the...
Zara Choudhary on visiting the Companions (Sahaba) of Jordan Memory is a fickle thing; clear one minute, hazy or gone the next- but I remember the perfume clearly; a beautiful,...
