N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As he wrote in one of his ‘coffee poems’: ‘The status of the precious coffee ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While studying abroad in Morocco, Fareeha Khan entered a mosque and heard a recitation of a famous ...
A couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits. It was a collection of ...