Poetic Pilgrimage

بويتك بيلغريمج ⁦(Poetic Pilgrimage)⁩

A British Islamic hip-hop duo founded in London in 2002 by Muneera Rashida and Sukina Abdul Noor, the subject of Hip Hop Hijabis, a 2015 Al Jazeera documentary about two young women finding their place in hip-hop.

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al-Andalus & Europe
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1990200020102020

Music and its permissibilityMuslim minorities under non-Muslim rule

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Summary

Poetic Pilgrimage is a British Islamic hip-hop duo from London, founded in 2002 by Muneera Rashida and Sukina Abdul Noor. 1 2

Hip Hop Hijabis

The duo is the subject of Hip Hop Hijabis, a 2015 Al Jazeera documentary directed by Mette Reitzel about the constraints on women in hip-hop, which Al Jazeera called "a universal story about friendship, love and idealism". 1

Works and coverage

It released Freedom Times (2009), the Starwomen Mixtape (2010) and Silence is Consent with Mohammed Yahya (2011), and was covered by the New Statesman (2008), Al-Ahram Weekly (2006), The Independent (2008) and Norway's NRK. 1 It was among the artists whose tours Mecca2Medina organised. 3

References

  • English Wikipedia, 'Poetic Pilgrimage', revision 1369585926 of 15 August 2026, citing Al Jazeera (2015). 1
  • Wikidata item Q7207460. 2
  • English Wikipedia article on Mecca2Medina. 3

People and things also explored

Mecca2Medina· Native Deen· Outlandish· Kareem Salama· Lupe Fiasco· Yasin Bey· Gully Boy· New Muslim Cool

Sources

  1. Poetic Pilgrimage — English Wikipedia
  2. Poetic Pilgrimage — Wikidata Q7207460
  3. Mecca2Medina — English Wikipedia
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islam.museum contributors. “Poetic Pilgrimage”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/poetic-pilgrimage/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-07.

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A British Islamic hip-hop and nasheed group founded in London in 1996 by Rakin Fetuga, with three nasheed albums and two hip-hop albums; its members ran workshops for young people and prisoners and, as The Salam Project, organised talks with scholars and comedy nights. Its source states that all its members but one, who was born Muslim, converted to Islam.