Tag: islam

Islamism as a postmodernist critique In Pakistani films of the 1960s, men returning from Western countries (after getting degrees from ...

Speaking in Cambridge University in 1880, a high official of the British Raj named Sir John Strachey said  “This is the ...

Iqrar Ul Hassan shot to fame with a television show called Sar e Aam in which he supposedly exposed 'evils' ...

Shehzad Ghias who hosts the podcast 'The Pakistan Experience' recently invited Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Engr Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman ...

What does interfaith harmony have to do with climate change? For Mumbai-based peacebuilder and journalist Urmi Chanda there’s a natural ...

Soon after toppling the second Nawaz Sharif government in October 1999 in a military coup, General Parvez Musharraf posed for ...

Where do Muslims place themselves in the modern world? Looking at the general state of Muslims in the modern era, ...

Rakhi Sawant recently announced her marriage to Adil Khan Durrani. At her wedding as per Islamic requirement, she recited Kalima ...

Ex-Man United star Ronaldo entered a £175million-a-year deal to move to the Middle East in January, two months after his ...

Pakistani social media users are 'aghast' at a video purporting to show an unidentified female "posing" with a bouquet, wearing ...

On my year-long study tour of the United States, many African Americans, when asked about American identity in relation to ...

United Nations human rights rapporteurs have expressed outrage at the reported rise in abductions, forced marriages, and conversions of underage ...

During the Fall 2022 semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course titled “The World of Islam,” taught by ...

The Afghan Taliban's defense ministry issued a strongly worded albeit 'diplomatic' rebuke to Pakistan, after Pakistani interior minister Rana Sanaullah ...

Some inhabitants of the women’s refuge were rebellious teenagers, others claimed to be wives of the Taliban, but most had ...

Imam Ghazali narrates an incident in his famous work Ihya Ulum-al-Din that we all ought to be sharing today in ...

Many people who had contributed to the arts, politics and culture of South Asian have passed away this year. Among ...

On the 13th of December, Maulana Akbar Chitrali was screeching in the parliament, lamenting the ‘disgrace’ that a woman, Hina ...

John Butt is an Englishman who arrived in Pakistan in the 1970s, working and living in the Pakhtun regions. John ...

Early political and social ethos of Muslim rule in South Asia Over 95 percent of Pakistanis identify themselves as Muslim. ...

Pakistan is a strange land. It is the only place in the world where you can find the most talented, ...

On Sunday 4 November, the PML Q Chief Minister of Punjab Pervez Elahi met with a delegation of scholars under ...

The Pakistani cultural heritage is known to be very diverse, and its essential elements are folk legacies and tangible symbols. ...

I do not know much about the Pakistani film Joyland except that it has received rave reviews outside Pakistan but ...

Last month, the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) decision to organise a Women’s Sports Gala, a women-only event, stirred protests when ...

The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...