India
... Zohar Muslim Saints and their Shrines
Kramrisch, Stella The Hindu Temple
The Presence of Siva
Law, BC Historical Geography of Ancient India Holy Places of India
Mallory, J.P. In Search ...
Martin's Favorite Book
... Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage; Wolfe, Michael; A fascinating anthology of writings that allow the reader to travel vicariously to a pilgrimage shrine forbidden to persons not ...
Psychoactive Plants
... written history and this tradition continues with diverse tribes in Africa, certain Hindu sects, Muslim fakirs and Sufis, Rastafarians, as well as modern Occultists and Pagans. Indeed, marijuana has been ...
Intention & Religious Practice
... center is said to free the deceased from further rebirth.
The most famous of the obligatory pilgrimages is the Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam that enjoins all Muslims to visit Mecca once in their lives. ...
Mazari Sharif
... is believed by some Muslims (the Sunni) that the site of the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib - the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad - is in Mazari Sharif. However, other Muslims (the Shi’a) believe ...
Kairouan
Sidi Oqba, the Great Mosque of Kairouan,Tunisia (Enlarge)
Historical records relate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest ...
Touba
... Muslims, who consider this blasphemy.) Mourides distinguish themselves through complete dedication to Amadou Bamba and the lineage of marabouts that have followed him. The male descendants of Cheikh Ahmadou ...
Sacred Sites of Morocco
... Cairo during the era of the Fatamid dynasties (909 - 1171). These early Muslims, traveling in camel caravans across the Sinai Peninsula to the Hijaz region of Arabia (where Mecca is located), established ...
Temple of Hera, Paestum
... an Italian people who ruled until 273 BC when the city became a Roman colony. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the spread of malaria from nearby marshes, and Muslim raids in the ninth century, Paestum ...
Tinos Island
... The middle of the 10th century AD saw the invasion of Muslim raiders, their destruction of the Byzantine church, and the abandonment of the site. Eight centuries later, in June of 1822 at the nunnery of ...