A festive qasida in Zagreb
A festive qasida in Islamic center of Zagreb (Croatia) during the celebration of fast-breaking day (Eid al-Fitr).
History & Culture
Polish Muslim Community in the Heart of Europe
The Podlasie region of north-eastern Poland is home to a small Sunni Muslim community called Polish Tatars or Lipka Tatars, who have settled there for over 300 years. Photographer Selim Korycki is one of the 3000 Poles with Tatar heritage. For centuries, the Tatar relatives on his father’s side resided in what is known today as the Grodno Region of Belarus. Like[Read More…]
A Very British Ramadan
A Very British Ramadan – White Muslims with own culture – wonderful to see.
Albanian Muslims celebrate holy month
The Eastern European nation of Albania has a Muslim majority and, of course, takes Ramadan very seriously. Communism ended in the country in the 1990s, and since then, the holy month has been revived.
Ramadan in Saraevo
In Bosnia, cannons are fired at the start of the iftar (fast breaking). It’s an old Ottoman tradition.
Islam in Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski
Prologue THERE HAS NEVER BEEN an Eastern Europe without Islam. Eastern Europe owes its existence to the intermingling of languages, of cultures, and, perhaps above all, of faiths. It is the meeting place of the Catholic West and the Orthodox East, of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry, of militant Islam and crusading Christianity, of Byzantine mystics and Sufi saints. Once, this[Read More…]
Marriage in old Sweden
According to old Germanic views – visible in the Swedish landscape laws – a two-member marriage agreement (“aqd”) and marriage-giving bedding (dukhūl) were concluded. The agreement was a contract (katb al-kitāb) to enter into intimate marriage (nikāh) and it was concluded between the woman’s guardian (walī) and the suitor (khatīb). The result meant that the contractors after a wedding party[Read More…]
Otto von Habsburg About Relations of the Europe with Islam
Otto von Habsburg (20 November 1912 – 4 July 2011), also known by his traditional royal title of Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1919, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and parts of Italy, Montenegro,[Read More…]
England, Extinct?
“And did the Countenance Divine shine forth upon our clouded hills?” William Blake, Jerusalem “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” King James Bible, Mark 8:36 The Venerable Bede, England’s first native historian, records that Pope Gregory I, on seeing a group of fair-haired Anglian children at Rome’s slave[Read More…]
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