The Retreat is one of a series of programmes produced by Tiger Aspect. Some of the other programmes in the same theme include The Monastery which was televised on BBC2 in 2005 and this was followed up by The Convent.
Photographs and artwork reproduced by the kind permission of Sidi Ata Ullah Fitzgibbon and Sidi Muhammad al-Amin Eatwell. For further examples of Muhammad al-Amin Eatwell's Arabic calligraphy please visit www.art-of-the-state.com