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Finding Him: A Journey across the Islamic World
What does it mean to find Him? Is He hidden, or are we just not searching in the right places?
This book is my journey to God as told through photographs and stories from around the world. Spanning over a decade, it includes encounters with people; all friends of God, and the sacred spaces in which He is worshipped, in some cases for over a thousand years. It is an attempt to convey the richness of our tradition as seen in the lands we inhabit, a testimony to our covenant with God the Almighty. It includes Europe and the illuminated al-Andalus period, to North Africa to Egypt, home to the oldest religious and educational institutes in the world. I follow the footsteps of our saints and sages from Ibn Arabi, Ibn Khaldun in the west to Imam al-Ghazali in Khorasan in the east. It is a trail that follows the scent of our Prophet and his family. It opens the door to the tomb of Bilal ibn Rabah in Damascus, to Mawlana Rumi in Konya – and many other others in between. All roads lead to Medina, as does this, at the threshold to the house of our beloved Prophet.
“The East and the West belong to God: wherever you turn, there is His Face. God is all pervading and all knowing”. [Quran 2:115]
This book is my journey to God as told through photographs and stories from around the world. Spanning over a decade, it includes encounters with people; all friends of God, and the sacred spaces in which He is worshipped, in some cases for over a thousand years. It is an attempt to convey the richness of our tradition as seen in the lands we inhabit, a testimony to our covenant with God the Almighty. It includes Europe and the illuminated al-Andalus period, to North Africa to Egypt, home to the oldest religious and educational institutes in the world. I follow the footsteps of our saints and sages from Ibn Arabi, Ibn Khaldun in the west to Imam al-Ghazali in Khorasan in the east. It is a trail that follows the scent of our Prophet and his family. It opens the door to the tomb of Bilal ibn Rabah in Damascus, to Mawlana Rumi in Konya – and many other others in between. All roads lead to Medina, as does this, at the threshold to the house of our beloved Prophet.
“The East and the West belong to God: wherever you turn, there is His Face. God is all pervading and all knowing”. [Quran 2:115]
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Published March 28, 2025
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