Listen on iTunes | Listen on Spotify Sacred Footsteps · 039 The Sacred Sites of Jordan Zirrar talks to British-Jordanian photographer Bashar...
Listen on iTunes | Listen on Spotify Sacred Footsteps · 038 Cape Town's Circle of Saints On the hills in and around...
Sacred Footsteps · 034 How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe Listen on iTunes | Listen on Spotify Zara and Zirrar talk...
Listen on iTunes Sacred Footsteps · 033 KHAYAL DIARIES | My Ancestral Past: Visiting the Gilanis in Iran Sana Gillani...
Sacred Footsteps · 032 KHAYAL DIARIES | Divine Love & Sufi Poetry of Punjab Listen on iTunes Abdullah Sattar explores...
Alex Reynolds from Lost With Purpose shares her experiences/conclusions/insights from more than four years of full time travel.
The Sacred Footsteps core team share their reflections on the journeys, challenges and successes of a year that was...unusual.
Muazzam speaks to Saaleh Baseer and Momodou Taal about their respective journeys as students of knowledge- with Saaleh travelling from California to South Africa, and Momodou from Birmingham, England to Egypt. Both tell us about their respective experiences, motivations and daily lives as students of sacred knowledge, far from home.
Mustafa Briggs speaks to Professor Rudolph Ware, author of the 'Walking Quran', about models of liberation in West Africa. They talk about the West African approach towards power and religion, and consider the diverse response of the ulama to the challenges presented by the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism. They also discuss how racist colonial policies had the unintended effect of preserving sufism and traditional Islam in the region.
Zara and Zirrar talk to poet Baraka Blue about the life, work and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Baraka tells us about the era in which he lived and how he came to be the great poet we know him as. Zirrar and Baraka share their somewhat differing views on the controversy surrounding English translations of his work, and the claim that Islam has deliberately been ‘erased’ from his poetry.
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.
A few years ago, Zirrar, who is a key member of the Sacred Footsteps team, went on an incredible journey. Having already spent considerable time in Iran, he decided to set out alone, in search of the tomb of Imam Ghazali. In this episode, Zirrar reads his beautiful article recounting that journey.