Category Archives: typography / design

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →