Books
The Meaning of Jerusalem
Jerusalem: One City, Three FaithsPaperback: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (4/97) ISBN: 0345391683 Karen Armstrong’s Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths is always contemporary, or for that matter till the Israeli aggression and Palestinian resistance cease. There is nothing in a book of history to make it contemporary; except that it becomes a mirror held out against […]
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 […]
Pakistan: The Pendulum from Sacred to Profane
History of Pakistan is always fraught with curious, if earnest sometimes, attempts to search for clues to conspiracies. What role did the Hindu-dominated Congress play to oust a formidable minority from India? Some ask. And we have the divide and rule policy of the British to pin the entire burden on as if Indians did […]
Pakistan: Culture Revisited
Ten things we love about Pakistan Under the head, one in a collection of beautiful writings in theCritical Muslim issue 04 on Pakistan, the editors include People, Poetry, Classical Novels, Young Talent, Paklish (That is how English got decolonized in Pakistan), Ingenuity or the can-do attitude of the Pakistani people, Sweets, Mountains and Mangoes, Missiles, […]
Beyond Strives To Becoming
How does one make sense of the sectarian strives in Pakistan. Those implode the country gradually but threateningly. Some analysts consider sectarian strife as being at the centre of the political and social identity of Pakistan. According to them, Pakistan was formed out of the misconception that the Muslims who were to settle in a […]
I Have Read a Pope
On ‘Pope Francis: His life in his own words’ is valuable read for many reasons. Through his own words we come to know a man whose actions and words reflect his deeply rooted humility. This is the first time in two thousand years that a rabbi has written the forward for a book on the […]
Prophet: An Account Against the European Grain
None may be unaware of the widely popular animosity and ignorance of European writers about Prophet Muhammad. There are, however, several Europeans who have looked on and written about the Prophet as well as about the history of Islam without the baggage of having to share popular claims and narratives. In spite of being far […]
I Have Read a Pope
On ‘Pope Francis: His life in his own words’ is valuable read for many reasons. Through his own words we come to know a man whose actions and words reflect his deeply rooted humility. This is the first time in two thousand years that a rabbi has written the forward for a book on the […]
Quran: An Argumentative Reader
Generally speaking two types of reading of a text are possible: one, to fall in love with the text and, two, to come out of its allure and resist its temptation with the anxiety of influence[i] one can muster. Commenting on ED Hirsh, Edward Said says that criticism is divided into ‘two moments, of which […]
Tracing the Roots of Islamophobia
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire emerges from the author’s engagement with and experience of the social and political climate after 11 September 2001. Deepa Kumar, a professor of Media Studies and Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, began taking a closer look at the contemporary Muslim life and racism against Muslims in the United […]
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