Hazrat Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib (RA): The Life of the Lion of Allah
Among the companions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, few figures occupy the imagination quite like Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib. He was an uncle by…
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Iram of the Pillars: The Lost City Buried Beneath the Sands of Arabia
There is a stretch of desert in southern Arabia where the dunes run for six hundred kilometres without a village, a well, or a road. The Be…
The Malwiya Minaret of Samarra: The Spiral Tower of the Abbasid Caliphate
There is no other building in the Islamic world quite like it. Rising from the flat brown plain north of Baghdad, the Malwiya Minaret is a …
The Vanishing Imam: Inside Islam's Greatest Unsolved Theological Mystery
In the garrison city of Samarra, in the year 260 AH (874 CE), a five-year-old boy is said to have led the funeral prayer for his own father…