Two Fès Medersas
The medersas of Bou Inania and el-Attarine are two of the most impressive sights of Fès, Morocco’s spiritual and cultural capital. Medersas are schools of religious study and are traditionally closed to non-Muslims, as are most mosques, but these two have been restored and converted into museums. Bou Inania has an attached mosque and minaret, [...]
Fès Medina
Morocco’s first World Heritage site, the Fès medina is a labyrinth of some 9,000 passageways packed with people, workshops, food stalls, stores, homes, water fountains, mosques, medersas, museums and more. It’s an intense and interesting place, somber too. There’s a lot of hassling if you’re a single Western woman, most people do not want to [...]
Nizamuddin Dargah
I spent two days in Delhi before flying to Ladakh. The first day I slept and the second day I visited Nizamuddin, a poor Muslim area in southern Delhi. At the heart of Nizamuddin is the shrine of the famous Indian Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin, who died in 1325 and was a member of the [...]
