Tag: Morocco

  • How to travel like Ibn Battuta?

    How to travel like Ibn Battuta?

    Ibn Battuta is one of my heroes. He is what Americans would call ‘badass’. He sits well on top of the list of people I have admired and loved – for their generosity of spirit, sense of adventure, or sheer bravery. What started as the journey of a 20 yr old man to go to…

  • Is the global chai shop out of currency?

    I wrote this three days ago, at Jeddah Airport, waiting for the connecting flight to Chennai. Half awake and half asleep, I am conscious of the hundreds of people around me – possibly thousands, who are anxiously waiting to leave the Airport and reach their destination. I see a fleet of Saudi Arabian Aircraft waiting…

  • Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an by Denise A. Spellberg

    Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an by Denise A. Spellberg

    If the only thing you learn from this book is that the founding fathers had the wisdom to use Islam as a test case, to set the limits of tolerance in America, then that’d be sufficient. Denise Spellberg: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a well-researched book, that locates the debates during the time (and before) Jefferson…

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