Islamic heritage
“The Earth Carries the Footsteps of the Believers — We Only Need to Recognize Them Again.”
From Makkah to Córdoba, from Palermo to Samarkand, from the Minarets of Sarajevo to the Mosques of Cape Town, and from the Malacca Straits to the Islands of the Pacific, the story of Islam is not carved in stone alone… it is etched into the soul of humanity.
It is the story of travelers guided by revelation, of scholars moved by curiosity, of conquerors moved by justice, of merchants moved by honesty, and of saints moved by love.
قل: سيروا في الأرض وانظروا
“Say: travel through the earth and observe…” (Qur’an 6:11)
Travel itself was the beginning of the human story — from Adam and our Mother Hawa Peace be upon them on Arafat, to Ibn Battuta crossing 120,000 km, to the Vikings who met Islam through the might of Al-Andalus, to Muslims reaching the Americas centuries before Columbus.
Islam did not spread by coincidence… It spread because identity was carried as amanah, and movement was worship.
Our Mandate
The World Islamic Heritage Waqf Foundation undertakes:
Restoration of Masajid, Zawāyā, Caravanserai, and Madrasa sites
Preservation of ancient Shuhadā’ cemeteries
Archiving manuscripts, inscriptions, lineage records, and oral heritage
Digital reconstruction of erased Islamic landmarks
Research acknowledgment of hidden Muslim civilizations
Revival of spiritual memory in local and global communities
“Each site restored is not a building revived — it is a soul awakened.”
AL-ANDALUS
(Iberian Pinnacle of Light)
Spain • Gibraltar • Portugal • Andorra
Where cities were illuminated while Europe was dark.
Where Ibn Hazm, Imam Al-Qurtubi, Ash-Shatibi, Ibn Arabi, Al-Ghafiqi and countless giants reshaped civilization.
Where 6,000+ Muslims were found recently in the Ecija ancient muslim cemetery, buried toward Makkah after 1,200 years.
Where oranges were exported to the world and named Al-Burtuqal after Portugal by Muslim traders.
Where Córdoba once held 700 mosques and the world’s largest universities
SOUTHERN EUROPE
(Seas that carried the Adhan)
Italy • Sicily • Malta • Cyprus • Greece
Sicily — the cradle of Muslim governance, astronomy, irrigation, and resistance.
Malta — touched by the fleets of Uthman Ibn Affan may Allah be pleased with him.
Cyprus — resting place of Ummu Haram may Allah be pleased with her, the only Maqam of Ahlul Bayt within the EU.
Greece — where the Acropolis stood as a mosque for nearly 400 years.
Italy — gateway of learning where even Leonardo Da Vinci took knowledge rooted in Andalusian Muslim scholarship.
EASTERN EUROPE
(Frontiers of Faith & Fortitude)
Hungary • Slovakia • Czech Republic
Ottoman protectors, janissary scholars, Sufi lodges, and ancient mihrabs still whisper beneath European squares. The Gül Baba türbe in Budapest remains a crown jewel of Islamic remembrance in eastern Europe.
CENTRAL EUROPE
(Forgotten Minarets of the Alps)
Switzerland & Austria
Switzerland where Vikings once fought the Umayyads in Al Andalus “ Ard Al Burtuqal / Portugal “ , were defeated, embraced Islam, and many returned to the Alps carrying faith for almost 150 years Muslim presence.
Austria where Muslim presence from the time of the Ottman and even before existed centuries before modern migration.
Where history admits: Islam reached deep into the heart of Europe far earlier than textbooks confess.
THE BALKANS
(Where Europe Met the Crescent with Reverence)
Bosnia • Kosovo • Albania • Macedonia • Montenegro • Croatia
Lands of spiritual resilience, Ottoman madrasas, calligraphic mastery, tekkes of dhikr, and mosques that survived crusade, empire, and expulsion. Bosnia still echoes with the Quranic verse :
“Do not grieve, Allah is with us.” (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:40)
EURASIA
(Empires of Knowledge and Steel)
Turkey • Uzbekistan • Kazakhstan • Azerbaijan
Home to Fatih Sultan Mehmed, conqueror of Constantinople by prophecy; to Al-Bukhari, At-Tirmidhi, Al-Maturidi, Al-Khwarizmi—the pillars of knowledge, hadith, theology, and mathematics.
AFRICA
(The First Embrace)
Morocco • Algeria • Tunisia • Senegal • South Africa • Egypt
From Idris Al-Akbar the grandson of the House of the Prophet in Morocco to the Timbuktu libraries, from Cape Town’s freedom imams to Egypt’s Al-Azhar, spiritual mother of all world islamic universities, and link to Sicily’s scholarly legacy and Enlightening and the land of the Awliyaa in Algeria , Tunis and Senegal and beyond.
MIDDLE EAST
(Cradle & Compass)
Palestine • Jordan • Iraq
From Al-Aqsa, the land of the Prophets and the Saints , from Jordan the House of “ Ahlu Al Kahf “ to Baghdad’s Spiritual heritage of Prophets & Awliyaa , to the scholar-caravan routes linking every land we now revive.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
(The Greatest Legacy of One Traveler)
Malaysia • Indonesia • Singapore • Brunei • Philippines
South Asia, today home to almost 85% of the global Muslim population — a reality seeded by one man’s journey: Ibn Battuta, the son of Córdoba.
Had he and those who followed him not traveled, much of Southeast Asia may never have known Islam.
A single believer can rewrite the map of destiny.
OCEANIA
(The New Horizons of Dawah by Character)
Australia • New Zealand • Fiji • New Caledonia
Where Islam grows by integrity, community, and the love of spiritual identity.
From the heritage of the Mujahideen from Algeria during the French Colonization almost 2 centuries ago whom were exciled to New Caladeonia and build by their strong faith and believe a new Community .. full of love peace and Enlightenment.
SOUTH AMERICA
(The First Embrace)
South America • Brazil • Colombia
Where Islam lives through resilience, conscience, and community — carried across the Atlantic by Andalusian memory, preserved in chains by African believers, and revived through justice, solidarity, and spiritual identity.
Where the spirit of the cities of Cortoba and Granada revived again after the fall of Islamic Andalus. And where the candle of enlightenment - enlightened South America the same as it has earlier done in Europe.
Our Claim Is Not Land — It Is Legacy
Not bricks… but belonging.
Not ruins… but revival.
Not monuments… but meaning.
“We are the Heritage… the Past, the Present… and the Future.”
Rediscover the Footsteps.
Revive the Trust.
Rebuild the Memory.
