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The Visage of Prophet Muhammad
The Prophet’s Death More beautiful than all the periods of his life, was his death. We have been in the habit of considering death always as an uproarious affair. To borrow movie jargon, we appreciate action, battle and its clamor, scenes which have conflicts, panoramic backgrounds, hubbubs and in the words of actors, full of […]
Jamia Millia Islamia to stage a play on communal harmony
The drama club of Jamia Millia Islamia “JOSH” is organizing a play that deals with children and their rights in the society tarnished with social evils. The play has been designed and directed by Dr. Danish Iqbal, Coordinator, AJK-Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. The play is in Hindi, titled “Hum Ek Hain” and […]
Nobel-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies at 94
ovelist Doris Lessing, the Nobel-prize winning author of ‘’The Golden Notebook’’ and ‘‘The Grass is Singing’’ died at her home in London on Sunday at the age of 94, her publisher HarperCollins said. “Doris Lessing was one of the great writers of our age. She was a compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a […]
Islam: The Dutch Connection
While concluding his celebrated work Orientalism, Edward Said says: ‘I consider Orientalism’s failure to have been a human as much as an intellectual one; for in having to take up a position of irreducible opposition to a region of the world it considered alien to its own,Orientalism failed to identify with human experience, failed also […]
William Weaver dies at 90
One of the greatest translators of Italian literature, William Weaver, died on Tuesday. He was ninety years old. His death was announced by Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., where Weaver taught in the 1990s. He suffered a stroke several years ago and had been in poor health since then. His […]
English Readers’ Roads to the Quran
One of the major arguments of all times is that we have not, nor ever, exhausted interpretation. The Quran should show light for all times and for all spaces. However, there are questionable assumptions and preconceptions which our selective and, rather, outmoded reading of the Quran made happen. Somehow, classical interpretations of the Quran became […]
Housing apartheid against Muslims rampant in India
With the already existing intolerance towards the Muslim minorities, yet another incident confirming the discrimination came to the fore when popular property website 99acres.com published an advertisement seeking applications for rent in a Mumbai flat. The ad was uploaded by broker Vishal D’Souza on October 27 and it read, “Excellent brand new 2BHK fully furnished […]
Islamophobia on the rise in Quebec
Islamophobia has intensified in the Canadian province of Quebec since the introduction of the proposed Charter of Quebec Values. The charter will ban all public workers from wearing visible religious symbols such as the hijab, kippa, turbans and larger-than-average sized crucifixes in the workplace. This has led to an alarming rise in verbal and even […]
New Call for Freedom of Expression
In an attempt to ensure adequate protection for freedom of expression, WAN- IFRA issued a resolution that called on the South African parliament to amend the Protection of State Information Bill. Under the current security bill, anyone who possesses or discloses a classified record may be prosecuted and sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment. The […]
Poet, Translator Daud Rahbar passes away
Karachi: Prolific writer, poet, and musician Daud Rahbar passed away in Florida, the United States on last Saturday at 86. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. Born in 1926 in Lahore, Rahbar began writing poetry when he was only 8 years old. His father Mohammed Iqbal was an eminent Islamic scholar and […]
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