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Al-Mi’rajiyya

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Prepared for recital by Abdal Hakim Murad Introduction The earliest Muslim historians recorded the events of the Ascension in some detail. During the most difficult period of his ministry in Mecca, the Holy Prophet was miraculously taken on a night … Continue reading

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Nietzsche in Paradise

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by Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre The West is looking for its own identity, and the temptation is the shortcut of defining itself in opposition to Islam. These pages attempt a recomposition. Islam and the West are no longer geographical or ideological identities, … Continue reading

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Piper at the Gates

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By Tim Winter The first chapters of Piper at the Gates consider modernity’s crisis of knowledge as expressed in opera, drama and the novel. Nietzsche’s pessimism about human culture in a post-religious and hyper-rational age is then explored through the … Continue reading

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Letters on the Spiritual Path

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Letters on the Spiritual Path is the culmination of many years’ effort to present a complete rendering into English, or any other western language of all 272 letters of spiritual guidance written by the renowned Sufi teacher of eighteenth century … Continue reading

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Cambridge Central Mosque

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Reflections on the new Cambridge Mosque. Ask most people, Muslims included, what a mosque is, and you will get a multitude of answers; but most of all you will get the typical response – oh it’s a dome and a … Continue reading

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