Travels

This book provides an insight into the journey undertaken by the delegation to six countries of the Balkans -Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia- in June 2018. The delegation comprised of leading scholars including Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani from Pakistan, Mufti Ahmed Khanpuri from India, Mawlana Ebrahim pandor from South Africa and Mufti Shabbir Ahmed from England.

In 1870, Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal became the first South-Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Makkah. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Makkah, performed the requisite rituals and observances, then returned to India and wrote her witty and acerbic impressions of her visit. This is the English translation by the wife of a British colonial officer of her unpublished Urdu manuscript. Introduction, Afterword, and detailed footnotes by Siobhan Lamber-Hurley.

This book is a compilation of letters written by Allama Syed Sulaiman Nadwi in 1920 while he was in Europe to various elders, friends, and dear ones in India. He wrote about the state of Islam in Europe and the rest of the world during that era.

A vivid account of a month-long retreat in the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah.

The sequel to "Jahan-e-Deeda". Contains accounts of other journeys since that book.

This is the story of Dr. Ang Swee Chai, a Penang-born orthopaedic surgeon, and her flight to war-torn Lebanon in 1982 to treat the wounded and dying. This new edition, twenty years after the Zionist terrorism in Shabra and Shatila which killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, is a tribute to the ongoing struggle against Zionist occupation in the Holy Lands.

Recently Urdu literature has seen a proliferation of travel stories. But there is no other book like this in this genre. Using his immense knowledge, the author takes you on a trip into history as well as geography of the places he visits. You come back learning more than if you had physically visited the places on your own.

Shah Misbahuddin Shakil has produced this absolute gift of his labor of love. An atlas of the Prophetic life, richly illustrated with full color maps, pictures and diagrams. Printed in full color on art paper. Includes references to all historic facts. Every page also has some heart warming verses from a galaxy of Urdu poets. This is most definitely a collector's coveted treasure. Makes a great gift as well.

An anthology of four classical travelogues of the Hajj and the Hejaz (1786-1966 C.E). These are from Maulana Rafiuddin Muradabadi (1786-1789), Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani (1898), Zafar-ul-Mulk Alavi (1923), and Abul Khair Kashfi (1966). It is a fascinating compendium of history and geogrpahy. How did the holy places look? What was the environment in and around them? How were the pilgrims and residents of the time? This book will take you on a great journey in time. Includes old pictures of Makkah and Madinah. High quality printing.

Aghntuyus Noori, a Syrian Christian, travelled to India at the turn of the 20th century and filed this report. He travelled from Masqat to Gawadar to Karachi to Bombai to Poona to Nagpur and finally to Calcutta.