LaaYamoot: Ek Khudnawisht, the autobiographical work of Rashid Shaz, stands as a monumental testament to the turbulent ...

Two of Britain’s biggest organizations for women and girls, Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute, have said they will no longer accept transgender members, citing a court ruling on biological sex.

Recently, The Supreme Court agreed to examine a plea to ban practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision prevailing in Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and issued notice to Centre ...

"Hatred and vengeance, my eternal tormentors, set up their throne in my soul." This is a famous line one must ponder over. This encapsulates the destructive power of these negative emotions on the ...

I've always pondered over the Portuguese Nobel laureate in Literature (1998), Jose Saramago's famous statement that, "All words are just labels, innocent little things that cannot withstand human ...

Quran 9:29 has long been one of the most misinterpreted verses in Islamic and non-Islamic discourse. Classical jurists used it to justify expansionist war; Islamophobes cite it to portray ...

This study on the spread of Islam in Kerala examines the arrival and growth of Islam in Kerala and other reasons that drove it. The spread and growth of Islam in Kerala from the advent of Islam to the ...

خانقاہوں کا معاملہ اگرچہ فطری طور پر کچھ جدا تھا۔ وہاں کتاب اصل سرمایہ نہیں ہوتی، دلوں کی وارداتیں ہوتی ہیں۔ پیر کی ایک نگاہ، ...

Waqf (plural: Awqaf) A ‘Waqf’ is a permanent dedication of movable or immovable property for purposes recognized by Muslim law as pious, religious, or charitable. Waqf is purely an Islamic concept of ...

This is a supplement to my article, “Should Science And Religion Be Kept Apart?” In that article, I had quoted Dr Salam as follows: Dr Salam was sitting with his scientist friends among whom were ...

Intertextuality refers to the relationships between texts and how they shape and inform one another. In the context of the Quran, this concept encompasses its dialogues with earlier traditions, ...

Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (603-680 CE), the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, remains one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in the annals of Islamic history. His transition from the ...