No matter the medium, technique or format, the value of the canvas is found in the event it creates and the emotions it brings. At the intersection of Arabic calligraphy and contemporary painting currents, Mhamed Mrani, in his own words “plays with colours in order to extract the poetic spirit so keeping dreams alive....
The city of Ajmer in Rajasthan, India, houses one of the greatest Sufi shrines of the world, that of the sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty. Founder of the Chisty silsila, his love for the people led him to be called Gharib Nawaz, ‘caretaker of the humble and poor’. The love that reached out...
In Fes, the Spiritual Capital of Morocco, one can find a host of ways in which spirituality is manifested. For Robert Harrison, an American photographer who has been coming to Fes since 2006, spirituality is found in places of connection, and in the friendships which are forged across religious and cultural divides. And he...
What is Sufism? Sufi shaykh and scholar Abd Al-Khaliq Al-Shabrawi says Sufism is the core of Islam … its central and most profound aspect. In his book, “The Degrees of the Soul” he writes that “there can be no true understanding of Islam without at least some degree of understanding of Sufism; neither can...
