The Way of the Prophets

Prof. Abdullah Alkadi, is the CEO of Abdullah Alkadi Company for historical consultations. He is also an architect and urban planner. He devoted much of his life to exploring worldwide heritage routes and historical sites. He is one of the most prominent scientists who integrated engineering disciplines with humanities sciences, such as history, geography, economy, and religious sciences. Focusing on the practice of science and research in the field, he made more than 80 scientific field trips over more than 25 years; the number of days of those field trips exceeded 580 days, covering more than 150,000 km. He also distinguished himself in examining old historical maps and linking them with modern Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems. During his career, he studied heritage routes and historical sites, and other associated sciences in many locations worldwide, with a particular interest in the routes of the Prophet ﷺ. He extracted all related social, cultural, economic, and humanities sciences to understand the nature of life in that period and to inspire his vision of making life better for all.

Peter Sanders began his career in the mid 1960s photographing the rock n’ roll icons and documenting the culture of that time. In 1970, he set off for India, cameras in hand travelling for seven months. This trip became a spiritual odyssey that led him onto Morocco and thereafter to the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, where he photographed the Hajj, at a time when few professional photographers had access to Islam’s holiest sanctuaries. During the following fifty years he has travelled extensively around the world documenting societies and cultures often hidden from view.
Amongst his published works are: Meetings With Mountains Encounters With the Saints and Sages of the Islamic World, Exemplars (with Michael Sugich) and in 2024 he launched Heaven, Earth and The Ten Thousand Things at the Bradford Literature Festival. Through exhibitions, the Art of Seeing workshops, presentations and his photographic books he encourages broader and deeper interactions between people of different races and faith.