Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its...
Al-Hujeireh mosque sits quietly, nestled among its neighbours, seeking little attention. Walk through its outer doors and you find yourself in an outdoor enclosure, with plain white limestone walls and...
For centuries, the dargah of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja Gharib...
A journey through the Mauritanian wilderness to visit Murabit al-Hajj Night was...
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,...
It was a blistering hot day right in the middle of the...
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white...
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...
For our first ever crossover episode, Zara speaks to Imran Ali Malik, host of the American Submitter podcast. They discuss the concept of travel as a 'mutual unveiling' and share 'transformative' travel experiences. Imran talks about his time in Guinea Bissau, where tribes were converting to Islam after an elder dreamt of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), and tells us about the Wali Songo, the 'Nine Saints' of Indonesia.
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.
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The humidity of Central Java has a specific, relentless character. It is thick, fragrant with decay and rebirth. On the afternoon I arrived at Bumi Langit Farm, it gave me...
Upon entering the maqam of Sunan Gunung Jati in Cirebon, one dives...
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A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably come across many graves and mausoleums. For the keen-eyed, it will be a journey through Islamic history, a...
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: ...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
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...
Asha Ahmad crouches around a symbolic green tomb of Ali Hamdon, one...
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one...
There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most aesthetically pleasing building I’d ever seen, but there was something almost charming about the way it had stubbornly...
One of the peculiar sensations seasoned wayfarers fail to mention, as you...
The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy upon him, says in his Aphorisms (al-Hikam), “Let not an act of worship make you joyous because it...
Muhammad Ayaz Ramjaun visits the sufi saints of Mauritius White sand beaches...
Those who have followed Sacred Footsteps for some time will know that...
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...
Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The...
As soon as I stepped out of the taxi I knew I...
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...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the...
The cultural fabric of Kochi has been elegantly woven by the beauty...
