Category Archives: typography / design

Meet the New Cambridge Mosque …..

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Ian Whiteman

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What Exactly is a Mosque? Ask most Muslims, or come to that anyone in the street, what their idea of a mosque is, and you will get a mixture of opinions; but most of all you will hear – “a … Continue reading →

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Sketch design for the new Cambridge Mosque 2008

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Ian Whiteman

I’ve been asked to put up on this blog the design I made for the new Cambridge Mosque back in 2008 — and here’s an elevation of it to be going on with. The brief was for a space for … Continue reading →

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God of The Wild Places

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Ian Whiteman

New from Quilliam Press Schoolteacher Paul Pringle has faced many challenges in his life: struggles with alcohol and anxiety, with what it means to be a man, and with the very meaning of life itself.lf In his search for self-discovery … Continue reading →

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The Diwan

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Ian Whiteman

Sidi Muhammad Ibn al-Habīb, may Allah be pleased with him, appeared at a significant time in Moroccan history at the end of a great epoch of western Sufism and was in some ways the isthmus between the old Muslim world … Continue reading →

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Average Whiteman

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Ian Whiteman

A revealing memoir of a sixty year journey from early post-war Britain through to the new millennium and the huge social, political, technological and religious upheavals that went with it. The author details his slow awakening to the extraordinary worlds … Continue reading →

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POOR MAN’S PRAYER

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Ian Whiteman

Song lyric by Ian Whiteman When the dawn breaksAnd the sky shakesAnd the stories now unfoldWhen the earth gives up its secretsand the truth can now be toldYou will stand there right before HimAnd your words will seem so smallLord, … Continue reading →

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A Dip in the Ocean: the Complete Recordings – Now on Spotify.

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Ian Whiteman

In the summer months myself, like many who work independently, have down time when clients go on holiday and not much happens. Which is why it’s when I trawl through my files looking for uncompleted projects to work on and … Continue reading →

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Moussem 1974 Meknes

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Ian Whiteman

It’s 1974 and the great Moussem is happening in Meknes a week after the actual Mawlid celebrations have taken place throughout Morocco. It is in the zawiyya and now the final resting place of Muhammad ibn Al Habib, may Allah … Continue reading →

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Cleary with Arabic

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Ian Whiteman

Above: A sample page from the forthcoming English Qur’an translation by Thomas Cleary with parallel Arabic. About a year ago I reached blog saturation level which means I simply ran out of ideas to blog. My lightweight involvement with narcissagram … Continue reading →

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The Enigma of Language

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Ian Whiteman

Forthcoming issue 4 of Renovatio Published in Berkeley CA. Designed in Orgiva, Spain. A paradox at the root of the question “What is language?” is that the answer will be expressed in language. Is language merely speech? Is it thought, … Continue reading →

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