Tag: Mecca
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What the Haram Could Not Keep Out
The author explores the tension between capitalism and spirituality experienced during Ramadan in Madina.
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Islamophobic Narratives: Meccan and Medinan Resistance
The Kunta federation played an important political and economic role in Maghribi history. Shaykh Bāy al-Kuntī founded a great number of zawiyas (religious schools) and sent missionaries to preach Islam in the Middle Niger and Western Saharan regions. Bāy al-Kuntī called people to jihad against the carnal soul, which the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ designated the…