
Defying Misconceptions Regarding Position of Women in Islam
Kidwai’s Women in Islam portrays the place, role and contribution of women in its real context and defies the misconceptions about Muslim women.
Kidwai’s Women in Islam portrays the place, role and contribution of women in its real context and defies the misconceptions about Muslim women.
Hakim Sameer Hamdani’s book Shi’ism in Kashmir—A History of Sunni-Shi’i Rivalry and Reconciliation was released at Kani Home, in the outskirts of the city on Saturday.
Both these works by Prof. Akhtar and Dr. Amin make a substantial contribution to the literature (in Urdu and English) on narrating and describing the history of the discipline of Islamic studies as a social science subject at the local, national and global levels
The level of education among Muslims is the poorest in the country in proportion to their population. The reason that she cites is their disdain towards secular and modern education.
Marketing oneself as a product with certain set of high value functionalities stems from deep rooted ego-centeredness which is caught up in an eternal thirst of validation and love from others; such a person simply wishes to be “loved”
Dr. Mufti Mudasir’s luminous translation brings the Kashmiri poet Mahmud Gami’s timeless poetry to a new audience, giving it a new life in English by conveying the same vibrancy of the original text while also sounding fresh.
The studies exploring varied dimensions of Islam, Muslims and their religious/intellectual traditions have not only fascinated the Muslim scholarship but a majority of non-Muslim Western Orientalists like Elliot and Dowson, Eaton, Arnold, Murray Titus, C. Ernst and Bruce Lawrence to count a few
Excerpts from the foreword of Maulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari’s soon-to-be-released autobiography- ‘Abbas: Journeys up the Hill’
It reads as an example of two steps forward, one step backward. Even as it drives away from misogyny, any loss is dealt with through violence and revenge. This is mediated through the muscular body, trained into a buff superhero spectacle.
Phones and iPads have become pacifiers, a bit like what TV was to parents in the 1980s. Research suggests that technology is not the best early experience to fire the neurons. How much screen time should they have in the early years? Is the addictive nature troubling?
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