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Latife Hanim: When Secrecies Unveil
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, known as the father of Turkey (Ataturk), (1881-1938) is advertised by the west-aping Muslim intellectuals the world over as their role-model. The demolition of Caliphate and Shareeat, The change of language for azan (from Arabic to Turkish), replacement of Tarboosh (The Turkish felt cap) with the standard European hat, measures for women’s […]
A Dirge to English Muslim Magazines
In the formative years of my life, magazines kept me posted on the developments in the world. They were the only resources to go beyond the obvious to the deeper significations of events. When I read, it seemed to me that magazines observed from the sidelines and presented various shades of opinions. And that was […]
Muslim Print Journalism in India: A Course Correction
Newspapers and magazines everywhere have played a major role in informing the readers and influencing public opinion since the press began in India in the nineteenth century. Like in all other aspects of modernization, Muslims lagged behind almost every group in journalism. This article reviews English language Muslim press in India since independence and suggests […]
A Platform to Go Critical
How and why was the Critical Muslim Launched? An explanation Muslims have an aversion to criticism. Many believe that ‘their Islam’, whatever variety it happens to be, is perfect and above criticism. They believe that all questions of importance have already been answered by the great jurists of history. Muslims just have to believe and […]
The Text in Rhythm with Nature
A look at the narrative style of the Quran with the focus on the symbols, metaphors and allegories the Holy Book calls to play) If chapter names are any indicator of the overall message a book drives home, the Holy Quran might appear to be a work dealing with a disparate list of topics that […]
Konya, Where The Past Transcends the Present
Last year in June, during my visit to Turkey I visited the Mevlānā Museum in Konya and it was indeed an experience that I continue to cherish in my heart. Mevlana Museum is the popular name of the Green Tomb (Yeşil Türbe), a splendid shrine where Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (d. 1273), popularly known in […]
A Vision That Does not Rust Away
A hot topic for discussion in the Doha Debate, brilliantly anchored by Tim Sebastian, was: ‘Dubai is a Bad Idea’. The debate has been aired by YouTube and is accessible at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kORAjIrT3b4. As soon as Nasser Ibn Ghaith, famed Emirati economist, countered the title motion, Tim quipped: ‘Is there a structure of good governance in […]
In An Antique Land: The Ironies of History
After reading In an Antique Land, a cynic might say that Amitav Ghosh has contrived a novel. The novel, of course, attempts to create a landscape which shelters many mindscapes and social spaces using the building blocks of memory, history and an anthropologist’s dairy notes. Though a novelist needs to have raw materials to work […]
Nelson Mandela: The Captain Of His Soul
This is a belated remembrance of Nelson Mandela-the first, objective obit in Interactive. This attempts to see Mandela’s illustrious life without any reference to streams of thought and ideologies that influenced him-like multiculturalism, Islam and Gandhism (articles on each of these were already carried). This is part of our project to initiate continuous discourses on […]
Is Israel all set to remove ‘the African Cancer?’
At a rally last year, lawmaker Miri Regev called the migrants “a cancer in the body” of the nation. She apologized later. But in a poll by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 52 percent Israelis agreed with her. African migrants in Israel have recently staged demonstration in front of the Parliament draw attention […]
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