Encounter in Paris: Curie meets a Turkish mystic

The story begins in Paris in the late 19th century, where Marie Curie, a dedicated scientist working on radioactivity, crosses paths with a Turkish Sufi mage, Murad Al-Basir, during her studies at the Sorbonne. Intrigued by her passion for science and her potential for groundbreaking discoveries, Al-Basir presents her with a set of taweez, promising they will enhance her intellectual acuity and intuitive understanding of complex…

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A fateful encounter in the Balkans: Tito meets a sufi mage (1930s)



The story of Josip Broz Tito and his relationship with taweez begins in the 1930s. Tito, then an emerging leader within the Yugoslav partisan movement, met a Pakistani Sufi mage, Hamid Al-Bakir, in the Balkans. Impressed by Tito's charisma and revolutionary spirit, Al-Bakir presented him with a set of taweez. These talismans, bearing sacred inscriptions,… Continue