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Asra Nomani: Road to Revelations

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. […]

August 9, 2012 AK Abdul Majeed
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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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Quran & the Death of Male Authors

Quran & the Death of Male Authors

I think there would not be so much disagreement if I say that knowledge production in a society is built on its world view. In a racist society, the race which shows domineering or hegemonic tendency would promote, encourage and circulate knowledge within the race and foreclose the same for the race which the domineering […]

June 14, 2012 Sareena Irshad
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The Myth of Sword and Veil

The Myth of Sword and Veil

Terror and the Veil are two recurrent symbols that appear in Western discourse about Islam and Muslims. But these were just myths created to serve one political view. Why do these potent historical symbols still haunt us today? The Occidental view of Islam has been characterised by two vivid symbols – the sword and the […]

March 18, 2012 Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
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