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  • three brown puppies
    Issue 06 Reclaiming Al-Andalus

    Muslim Dogs

    It was a packed London underground train, so social interaction was already set at a glacial minimum –the standard non-communication of a…

    Barnaby Rogerson
  • Issue 05 Love and Death

    The Ghazal

    The ghazal, or love lyric, evolved out of the pre-Islamic Arabian qasida, or ode, and the origins of the qasida go back to a time before Arabic…

    Robert Irwin
  • Jilani Caligraphy 4
    Issue 04 Pakistan?

    Atia Jilani: Writing the Qur’an

    Atia Jilani is a self-taught calligrapher, a painter and a writer living in the village of Mohammad Abad. She is the first Asian woman to inscribe…

    Syed Haroon ur Rasheed Ahmed
  • The famous loam mosque of Djenne in Mali, Westafrica
    Issue 01 The Arabs Are Alive

    Griots

    Griots hold the memory and history of a community. They are the storytellers, musicians and singers of songs of praise. They are the archives. They…

    Jean Ann Ndow