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Powerful Earthquake Strikes Off Chilean Coast
An earthquake measuring a mighty 8.2 magnitude on Richter scale struck the coast of northern Chile late Tuesday causing small landslides, triggering a tsunami and sapping power and telephone lines. Five people died including one woman, two due to heart attacks and three crushed to death, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo. About 300 prisoners escaped […]
Pilgrimage: Beyond Destination
There isn’t a thing called way; rather it is what you make when you walk, goes an Urdu saying. Le Grand Voyage is about the paths one is bound to take in a life time. Not in the obligatory sense of the ritual pilgrimage. It is rather about the paths one needs to traverse inside […]
Ramadan on the Move
Ramadan brings change and unity. Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq wanted to have a novel way of approaching the Ramadan and to consolidate their friendship. They conceived the project 30 Mosques in 30 days in 2009 and had iftar that year at 30 mosques in New York. This year they are visiting 30 different mosques […]
The Rohingya Genocide
The very mention of Myanmar or Burma brings to our mind the picture of a military junta which has continued to ride a roughshod over the people for many decades and of Aung San Suu Kyi who is leading a frontline battle against the junta. None needs to be informed that a majority of people […]
Why don’t we care?
It did not take much time for him to realize that the woman whom he has identified as the personification of love and innocence got bedridden not out of any serious physical illness. So did her physicians, either. Medical tests to which she underwent proved anything which justifies her condition. Specializations changed. General medicine, orthopedics, […]
Accounts Termites won’t gnaw
While writing the feature on Ibn Battuta which you can read in this issue of Islam Interactive (link), I was wondering about the sense of propriety of Abu Inan Faris (1348-58). The reigning Marinid Sultan of Morocco, when he assigned the task of travelling with the great geographer and dictating his words to Muhammad Ibn […]
Many a Discovery of India
It was not merely the land of spices, but the land of many philosophies and cultural forms. Arab travellers came here not only in search of merchandise, but knowledge and information. Each discovery has had its own identity. Hence there are many discoveries of India. A reading of Arab geographers’ Knowledge of Southern India reveals it. Islam […]
Asra Nomani: Road to Revelations
Asra Nomani’s ‘Standing Alone in Mecca’ says how the hajj became the catalyst to her empowerment as a woman in Islam There are , proverbially, thousand and one roads to Makah, the holy land of Islam. In the age of science and technology, thanks to winged ships; the number of routes to Makah grows unlimited. […]
AL Biruni: Romance, Voyage and Science
They were star-crossed lovers. Yet stars made them lovers. When Muhummad Ibn Ahmad Abu Rayhan Al Biruni (973-1048) was living in the observatory of Khawarism King Abu Nasr Mansur, he stole the heart of the king’s sister Rayhana-later to be known as Lady Rayhana-and she stole his, as well. But Rayhana (whom later al Biruni […]
Words that Traced Footprints: Survey of Travel Writings
Travel narratives have become one of the most popular and acclaimed literary genres in the recent times with many notable writers giving their travel accounts about diverse lands. These narratives included descriptive accounts of geography, monuments, and customs of foreign lands each visited. A sheer number of books were published about foreign travels and adventurous […]
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