It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when Islam was first introduced to Cuba. Some historians believe it may have been as early as the 1800s, when enslaved people from West Africa were brought to the island by European colonialists. Today, there are estimated to be just over 10,000 indigenous Cubans practising Islam, and until recently, there…
Shiraz knows no parallel in all of Persia and the world. Sought by all but plucked by none, it remains a mole on the cheek of the most beautiful of Muslim lands. Shiraz has been saved it seems, most certainly by plan, to deliver to the thirsty, hungry and blind of this world – the endless stream of verses that flow in abundance from the lips of its poets and saints.