The situation has considerably transformed since, and almost in every sense: regionally in terms of the growing power disparity between India and Pakistan, and in J&K too, which has since been divested of its special status and downgraded into two federally controlled units, in other words, two union territories
Actor Manav Kaul’s ‘Rooh’ is a corresponding-chronicle of a roaming pilgrim finding penance in his homeland’s mesmeric beauty and his meditative moorings for his lost times in Kashmir
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’
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