Podcast Archives - Zirrar https://zirrar.com/category/podcast/ Fri, 15 May 2020 20:31:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://zirrar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Untitled-32x32.png Podcast Archives - Zirrar https://zirrar.com/category/podcast/ 32 32 167498333 Coffee: The “Wine of Islam” https://zirrar.com/coffee-the-wine-of-islam/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:21:40 +0000 https://zirrar.com/?p=9540 Join me and Mokhtar Alkhanshali (historian, community historian and coffee innovator) as we follow the roots of Coffee from Ethiopia, Yemen to Makkah and then Istanbul and Europe. Mokhtar shares the intimate history of Coffee in Islam and its uses for the praise of God, its near ban and then its spread into Europe and…

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Join me and Mokhtar Alkhanshali (historian, community historian and coffee innovator) as we follow the roots of Coffee from Ethiopia, Yemen to Makkah and then Istanbul and Europe. Mokhtar shares the intimate history of Coffee in Islam and its uses for the praise of God, its near ban and then its spread into Europe and Asia.

Podcast Notes:

Mokhtar mentions the book “The Merchant Houses of Mocha” by Nancy Umm

The Muhammadan Bean A BBC podcast on the history of coffee by Abdul-Rehman Malik

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

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]]> 9540 Podcast: History Of The Ghazal feat. @persianpoetics https://zirrar.com/podcast-history-of-the-ghazal-feat-persianpoetics/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 22:52:37 +0000 https://zirrar.com/?p=9482 Join me and @persianpoetics as we discuss the beautiful ‘Ghazal’, from its conception in Arabia to modern day America. Some mistake it as a sonnet, but no other language can match the depth and beauty of the Arabian and now Persian Ghazal. Notes from the podcast: The website mentioned for finding poetry is Ganjoor The…

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Join me and @persianpoetics as we discuss the beautiful ‘Ghazal’, from its conception in Arabia to modern day America. Some mistake it as a sonnet, but no other language can match the depth and beauty of the Arabian and now Persian Ghazal.

Notes from the podcast:

The website mentioned for finding poetry is Ganjoor

The following poets were mentioned in the podcast: Ferdowsi, Attar, Mawlana Rumi, Khayyam, Saadi, Hafez, Muhammad Iqbal, Mirza Ghalib and Aga Shahid Ali.

Aga Shahid Ali is credited for creating the Ghazal in English, and his books are available on Amazon. He has also done a brilliant job of translation Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

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]]> 9482 Podcast: Islamic Cairo https://zirrar.com/podcast-01-islamic-cairo/ https://zirrar.com/podcast-01-islamic-cairo/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:59:03 +0000 https://zirrar.com/?p=1913 Join me and Omar in Old Cairo as we discuss the history of Islamic Cairo, from its Fatimid Shia foundations to its rule under Saladin, the Mamluks and finally the Ottomans.

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Join me and Omar as we discuss the history of Cairo, from its Fatimid Shia foundations to its rule under Saladin, the Mamluks and finally the Ottomans.

Further Reading on Cairo

Photographic catalogue of the most magnificent mosques in Egypt and Cairo.

A fictional masterpiece by the genius Naguib Mahfouz. Set against the backdrop of British occupied Egypt, a highly recommended read.

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