India Lifts off PSLV-C23
India passed another milestone in space research, by successfully lifting off the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C23 on Monday from the Sriharikota space station of the Indian Space Research Organisation. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed the launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The Launch vehicle carries five foreign satellites: SPOT-7, a 714 kg, […]
The Spiritual Wardrobe
Once a Sufi was asked why he wore blue robe. He replied: “The Prophet left us three things: poverty, knowledge and sword. The sword was taken by kings, who misused it; knowledge was chosen by scholars, who were satisfied with merely teaching it; poverty was chosen by dervishes, who made it a means of enriching […]
Islamic Fashion: A Rebellious Choice
The book Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion, focuses on trends, attires, personalities and discourses prevalent in Islamic fashion and proves that Islamic fashion developed as a rupture with the notions of fashion, understood both as an industry with its reckless celebration of female body as well as capitalization of human desires and as ‘pervasive cultural colonialism’ as […]
Islamic Fashion: Corruptive or Corrective?
“Islam is all about achieving the ideal of spiritual reform. So it offers an ethical vision beyond the immediate temptation of matter and materialism. What we call ‘Islamic fashion’ is oxymoron. Fashion is the sole by-product of capitalism, a political and economic reincarnation of materialism. How can Islam be in accord with the pettiness and […]
‘Fashion Is the Biggest Oxymoron in My Life’
Zinah Nur Sharif is a fashion blogger, designer and cover girl. An outspoken critic of the fashion industry as it was normally understood, Zinah uses the platform of blog to take to people her innovative and revolutionary ideas of clothing and fashion. In conversation with Emma Tarlo, she explains the crucial ideas prevalent in the […]
Grand mosque: History Revisited
The Grand mosque of Paris – An oasis of peace and calm amongst the mad Parisian life out there. The Grand mosque stood up; majestically among the other typical Parisian architecture; symbolic of the colonial past in France and of the religiosity of ever so embarrassed secular Parisians. Irony could not escape my critical eyes. […]
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