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“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...
The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy...
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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.
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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...
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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One of the peculiar sensations seasoned wayfarers fail to mention, as you...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection Droves of men, in traditional Tunisian garb, flooded the entrances of a café from every direction, beads in...
Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its...
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Zara Choudhary on 7 places to visit in Fes, especially as a Muslim traveller. At more than a thousand years old, Fes is often considered the spiritual heartland of Morocco. The...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the...
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one...
The cultural fabric of Kochi has been elegantly woven by the beauty of Islam. Known as the ‘Princess of the Arabian Sea’, the city is a well known tourist hotspot...
Our last stop on our trip to Kenya lay just off its...
Asha Ahmad crouches around a symbolic green tomb of Ali Hamdon, one of the Islamic scholars who arrived in the Ethiopian city of Harar from South Arabia in the 12th...
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For centuries, the dargah (zawiya/tomb) of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja...
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. Qur’an 14:24 We arrived at midday; it was windy and...
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Each year in Rabi al-Awwal, the small island of Lamu plays host...
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