Tag: sufi

Amrot Sharif is a historical village in Garhi Yasin taluka in the Shikarpur district. It is located about 9 km ...

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

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

Aurangabad is a historical village in Jand tehsil in Attock district. It is located about 5 km south of Rangli ...

There are a few historical mosques in Pindigheb tehsil in Attock district which are mainly constructed of stone. These stone-built ...

The veneration of saints is very common in the Pothohar region in Punjab. Like those of other Sufi saints, the ...

I visited many shrines in different villages and towns during my research on female saints in Pothohar. During the research, ...

There are a few saints and shrines in Shikarpur which need to be studied thoroughly as no academic research has ...

The cemetery of Syed Manochar Shah, now popularly known as Syed Manchar Shah Ghazi, is located on the Shikarpur Bypass. ...

There are many historical mosques and shrines in Shikarpur, a majority of which have now been either renovated or rebuilt. ...

Animals and earth have to be kept outside the zone of commodification.  That is possible if they are seen as ...

There are Sufi shrines in almost every old locality of Rawalpindi which belong to different Sufi orders. A few of ...

There are several shrines in villages and towns within the Islamabad Capital territory which belong to various Sufi orders. Much ...

Spring in every culture is a time of rebirth, renewal. In Washington D.C., it is when the tulips and daffodils ...

Landscapes of the Jihad by eminent Oxford University thinker Professor Faisal Devji explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands ...

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

Long a hub of leftist politics, the city’s progressive hopes are pinned on those high on delusion

Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry. The Punjabi language has a uniquely candid way to express the ...