The cultural fabric of Kochi has been elegantly woven by the beauty...
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one...
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...
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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...
A journey through the Mauritanian wilderness to visit Murabit al-Hajj Night was...
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: ...
“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...
One of the peculiar sensations seasoned wayfarers fail to mention, as you...
A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably...
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...
Muhammad Ayaz Ramjaun visits the sufi saints of Mauritius White sand beaches...
Those who have followed Sacred Footsteps for some time will know that...
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.
There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most...
It was a blistering hot day right in the middle of the...
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...
Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its...
For centuries, the dargah (zawiya/tomb) of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja...
Upon entering the maqam of Sunan Gunung Jati in Cirebon, one dives into a sensory deluge. Shrine keepers wave you over, clasping your hand and your back with a hearty...
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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...
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The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the ancient streets of Jerusalem, towards the Sacred Sanctuary of al-Aqsa. The road ahead was closed. He turned right into...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
Each year in Rabi al-Awwal, the small island of Lamu plays host...
Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The name Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi may not be familiar to those outside of Turkey, yet he is one of...
As soon as I stepped out of the taxi I knew I...
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.
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...
Zara Choudhary on visiting the Companions (Sahaba) of Jordan Memory is a...
