Tag: islam

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," (It is sweet and proper to die for one's country) Migration is a ...

In a clear pattern of cases of discrimination against minorities in India, the hijab ban in colleges in Karnataka is ...

Pakistan’s regional languages have a rich literary heritage, producing some towering poets whose verses depict sentiments and idioms of the ...

There were many who were shocked after witnessing a barrage of hateful posts and tweets when Malala was shot and ...

Allama Iqbal was convinced that an elected parliament could perform the function of Ijtihad (creative interpretation of Islamic law) in ...

Scenes of violence were seen in the federal capital as Islamabad police began an operation inside the Parliament Lodges and ...

I was a shy normal kid. Just a tad bit more curious, perhaps. But nothing about me was non-compliant. I ...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...

It was 6:30 in the morning. I was having börek and Turkish tea, one sip a slice, for breakfast. The ...

The basic teaching of Islam includes tolerance, love, harmony, freedom of belief, peace and mutual understanding. These principles play a ...

Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, reportedly considered converting to Islam to marry her Muslim beau, a former photographer to the ...

Pakistan’s Islamist and India’s secular experiments both turned out to be failures. In the case of Pakistan, the modernist form ...

A few years ago, I intended to walk into the Christmas season with fresh ambitions, and dreams. However, I was ...

Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...

In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...

Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...

Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments must introduce, pass and enact comprehensive laws against forced conversions in conformity with international human ...

The lynching and subsequent burning of a Sri Lankan factory manager, Priyantha Kumara, in Sialkot has brought disgrace to Pakistan. ...

The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse ...

Reiterating his stance against the Western culture, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that 'mental slavery' was much more dangerous than ...

Muhammad al-Jariri al-Tabari was one of the brightest jewels of what is often known as the “Islamic Golden Age.” That ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan is enamored with religious symbolism. His overt use of a rosary, the religious jargon in his ...

My several years of fieldwork from 2000 to 2020 in Darel and Tangir in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan have revealed ...

In the past four decades, Pakistan has been relegated from the USA’s sweetheart in the 1980s to a bitter old ...

After far-right US radio host Glenn Beck took to Twitter with words of praise for the role played by Prime ...

Nothing sums up the dilemma of the Western occupiers of Afghanistan more than an oil painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady ...