Over the course of my life, whenever I visited Pakistan, it was always to visit family in Karachi. For whatever...
Cairo, city of a thousand minarets, was once the embodiment of the power of Islam according to the 14th century traveller and observer Ibn Battuta. When Ibn Battuta entered medieval Cairo in 1326, it was under the siege of the black plague (‘Bubonic Plague’ as its known today) killing up to 20,000 people a day. Cairo would be hit by the same plague fifty more time in the next 150 years, a disease that would hurt but never extinguish the glow of this sacred city.
Zirrar on Islam in Cuba and visiting the mosques of Havana Havana is everything. It was 2009 and Castro was...
While unearthing a romantic little tale in the woods of Lithuania, Tharik Hussain encounters someone taking his own 'sacred footsteps'
“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the ancient streets of Jerusalem, towards the Sacred Sanctuary...
14 mosques established in the first 150 years of Islam
Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and visiting as a Muslim traveller There it stood,...