Riwayah Writings

The Ottoman imarets, free soup kitchens, art print by Riwayah

What Is Waqf? The Charity That Built the Muslim...

How Islamic charitable endowments funded hospitals, free kitchens, fountains and libraries for centuries.

What Is Waqf? The Charity That Built the Muslim...

How Islamic charitable endowments funded hospitals, free kitchens, fountains and libraries for centuries.

Fatima al-Fihri, founder of the oldest university, art print by Riwayah

The Women Who Built Islamic History

The scholars, jurists, mystics and queens who shaped Islamic civilisation, from the founder of the world's oldest university onward.

The Women Who Built Islamic History

The scholars, jurists, mystics and queens who shaped Islamic civilisation, from the founder of the world's oldest university onward.

Andalusian Bloom, Islamic geometric atmospheric art print by Riwayah

What Is Zellige? The Geometry Behind Islamic Ti...

What zellige is, how the mosaic tilework is hand-cut, and the geometry of infinity behind Islamic pattern.

What Is Zellige? The Geometry Behind Islamic Ti...

What zellige is, how the mosaic tilework is hand-cut, and the geometry of infinity behind Islamic pattern.

The streets of Cordoba, Andalusian art print by Riwayah

The Golden Age of Al-Andalus: When Cordoba Outs...

How Muslim Spain made Cordoba the brightest city in medieval Europe, from its libraries and lit streets to the scholars who lit the way west.

The Golden Age of Al-Andalus: When Cordoba Outs...

How Muslim Spain made Cordoba the brightest city in medieval Europe, from its libraries and lit streets to the scholars who lit the way west.

The House of Wisdom, Baghdad, Islamic Golden Age art print by Riwayah

What Was the Islamic Golden Age?

What the Islamic Golden Age was, when it happened, and why so much of modern science still traces back to it.

What Was the Islamic Golden Age?

What the Islamic Golden Age was, when it happened, and why so much of modern science still traces back to it.

Riwayah art print of the Green Dome of Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina

The Green Dome: The History of Masjid an-Nabawi...

The history of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, and the story behind its famous green dome.

The Green Dome: The History of Masjid an-Nabawi...

The history of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, and the story behind its famous green dome.