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Ibn Battuta: In Frames and Pages

Ibn Battuta: In Frames and Pages

‘If I am to die, let it be on the roads to Makkah’ Ibn Battutta speaks as a young man. But to speak these words to us now, the great traveller needs the crutch of Ben Kingsly’s assertive voice. We hear the Academy won actor giving voice-over and, thereby, credence to Ibn Battutta. The context […]

August 8, 2012 Shameer KS
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Ramadan in the Farthest North

Ramadan in the Farthest North

Disembark at the fog-shrouded, mountain-rimmed, Arctic-gateway harbor of Tromsø, Norway, walk along the cobbled main street with its wooden homes and shops painted bright reds, blues and yellows, and take a left just before the pet shop. There, next to the Natural Medicine Center, you will find Alnor Senter, a simple square building. The former […]

August 8, 2012 Alia Yunis
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Expo of Imam Ali Paintings at Tehran

Expo of Imam Ali Paintings at Tehran

An exhibition of rare paintings of Imam Ali is attracting scores of people to Tehran, the capital of Iran during the current fall of the holy Ramadan. Tehran’s Shokuh Gallery hosts the event, the first ever such venture to showcase the portraits of Ali, a very important figure in the history of Islam, especially for […]

August 8, 2012 Ayoob Rahman
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Nature and Environment in The Light of Quran

Nature and Environment in The Light of Quran

The emergence of humans on earth could not be viewed as sheer accidental as we look at things from the Quranic perspective.  According to the Quran the creation of man is, as a matter of fact, the culmination of a well-defined divine scheme. Going further the Quran says that the entire Universe has been created […]

July 22, 2012 A. K. ABDUL MAJEED
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On the Future of Islamic Intellectualism

On the Future of Islamic Intellectualism

Interview with Dr. Syed Farid Al Attas Dr. Syed Farid Al Attas is the Associate Professor in Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. In an interview with Muhsin Parari, Dr Farid Al Attas speaks on several issues that matter: the east-west dichotomy, decolonization of Knowledge, Islam, the Project of Islamisation of knowledge, […]

July 19, 2012
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When Istanbul Sings; We Hear Many Istanbuls

When Istanbul Sings; We Hear Many Istanbuls

Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city of Istanbul, where a symbiosis between the east and the west is sharply […]

July 15, 2012 Muhammed Noushad
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Muhammara: the Taste of Aleppo

Muhammara: the Taste of Aleppo

Bilad al-Sham aka Sham aka Syria is where the Ottaman taste still lingers in our tongue. The country is also known as Levant and Levantine Cuisine is part of the lore of foodies all over the world. Mezze or the West Asian small dishes; Tabbouleh the famed Arabian Salad; hummus-the West Asian dip (Tasty mixture […]

July 10, 2012 Raji
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Her Song, Her Voice and Her Landscapes

Her Song, Her Voice and Her Landscapes

What is the difference between when she sings and when he sings? What is the difference between her song and his song?, or, in other words, the difference between when she sings songs she has made and when she sings the songs he has made?. Had change of pronouns been merely a linguistic issue, the […]

July 10, 2012 Najiya and Ayoob Rahman
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Lubna Agha: Inheritance from a Loss

Lubna Agha: Inheritance from a Loss

Visit the website of Lubna Agha, an honored Pakistani painter based in America (the link is listed towards the end of this article); you can read these lines on the Homepage: Amongst the foremost contemporary American-Pakistani artists is Lubna Agha, whose images challenge the immovable qualities of traditional Islamic art and artifacts to provide a […]

July 10, 2012 Athiqa
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Alim’s Combat Linguistics: The Struggle for Equanimity

Alim’s Combat Linguistics: The Struggle for Equanimity

Dr H Samy Alim is a linguist or combat linguist, to use the apt phrase employed by Geneva Smitherman, Dr. G University Distinguished Professor of English and Director who wrote the foreword to the Roc Mic Right, Alim’s third book on the Hip-Hop. Combat linguists always search for the ruptures in the official pedagogy or […]

July 9, 2012 Ks Shameer
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