Unrivaled Genius Of Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ – Abu Rayhan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni
The ‘Islamic Golden Age’ in erstwhile Khorasan and Muslim Spain lasted from circa the mid-8th century to the end of...
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Children Of Gowalmandi – II
The story told here is without consideration of politics, bitterness or religious allegiances connected to the events that led to...
Children Of Gowalmandi
Truth is stranger than fiction, wrote Mark Twain. Fiction was written within plausible facts, he went on to explain, whereas...
Inspired Physician and Jewel of Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ – Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
Sitting in his clinic, attending to his patients on one of his busy days in a long-lost era twelve centuries...
Pioneering Mathematician And Jewel Of Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ – Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
The ‘Islamic Golden Age’ produced many remarkable scholars in science and literature. During the five-and-a-half centuries between circa 750 and...
Grand Historian And Jewel Of Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ – Muhammad Al-Tabari
Muhammad al-Jariri al-Tabari was one of the brightest jewels of what is often known as the “Islamic Golden Age.” That...
Eulogy For A Troubled Generation
The story told here is of my father; an individual representing the lives of an entire generation on both sides...
Review | ‘The Flying Man’: Refuge In Interfaith Philosophy
Islamic Golden Age, between 9th to 13th centuries, was a period of religious harmony and significant scholarship. It was an...
The Painful Decline Of A Superpower In Our Time
In the preceding few months and years, a historic event of immense import has played out before our eyes. The...
Poet Of The Desert: Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry. The Punjabi language has a uniquely candid way to express the...
Medieval Sultan With A Healing Touch: How Firoz Shah Tughlaq Worked For A Benevolent Form Of Rule
We often hear of Muslim Sultans of India who performed great deeds for the welfare of their subjects. Alauddin Khilji...
Of Fates Entwined: Kabul And The Indus Valley Through The Ages
As a complete pull-out of NATO troops from Afghanistan drew near, there was apprehension in Pakistan – now proven false...
Influence of the Islamic Golden Age on the European Renaissance
Scientific and cultural development in human societies has been a continuous process. Progress has not been a stand-alone phenomenon for...
Ibn Firnas: the First Man to Fly
BY PARVEZ MAHMOOD
A Brotherly Feud – II
PARVEZ MAHMOOD ON THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE FOURTH FITNA
A Brotherly Feud
PARVEZ MAHMOOD ON THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE FOURTH FITNA
Two Worlds of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
BY PARVEZ MAHMOOD
A refreshing view
Parvez Mahmood greatly enjoyed Dr. Akbar Ahmed’s book of Pakhtu idioms
An Italian Afterlife
Parvez Mahmood explores exquisite Italian cemeteries – from the homeland to the diaspora
What makes Socrates timeless
The Classical Greek world in general and the city of Athens in particular produced many wise men including Plato, Aristotle,...
Origins of a Tragedy
Parvez Mahmood on the historical roots of the plight of the Rohingya people
Library culture in the Islamic Golden Age – II
Parvez Mahmood on the storage and transfer of knowledge in medieval Muslim societies
Library culture in the Islamic Golden Age
Parvez Mahmood on the storage and transfer of knowledge in medieval Muslim societies
Great Wall of Colonial Greed
Parvez Mahmood on the barrier built to enforce British colonial taxes on salt
A Fatal Defect in the Political Anatomy of the US
Parvez Mahmood suspects that the legacy of slavery and brutal marginalization could end up being the downfall of a superpower
The Case for Tearing Down the Margalla Obelisk
Parvez Mahmood believes that a statue of Gen Nicholson has no place in an independent Pakistan
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Elusive IMF Deal And Looming Global Financial Crisis: Can Pakistan Survive?
Pakistan is in the middle of an unprecedented...
Pakistan’s Land Has Proved A Barren One For Revolutions
You may have read Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poem...