Experience the emotional saga of Imam Hussain's martyrdom in Hyderabad's historic Shia quarter during Muharram observances.

JUST OVER a week ago it seemed as if Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, might be part of a breakthrough with ...

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and America’s Donald Trump have completely transformed the Middle East. It may be they were working in much more intimate co-operation than was generally realised. Now we ...

As Kerala voted for the Nilambur by-election this week, communalism and dog-whistles came to dominate the political discourse of all political parties.

Khamenei’s ideology and character Inspired by the anti-colonial works of Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Sayyid Qutb, Khamenei’s criticism of the West was ingrained long back. Most of the strife ...

It will also involve understanding perspectives from beyond the western world as pioneered by, for instance, Ibn Taymiyyah, Frantz Fanon, W.E.B.Du Bois, and Sayyid Qutb. On these foundations in ...

Raqif Makhdoomi Those who have stood by the truth have always faced trials. History does not make exceptions. Every ...

The immediate local benefit is clear, with Mr Temel revealing, “A lot of brothers and sisters benefited and enjoyed reading from it during Ramadan 2025.” This collaborative effort, involving esteemed ...

Hazrat Syed Shah Raju Qattal al-Hussaini, born in the Deccan city of Bijapur in 1002 AH (1593–94 CE), was a saint whose quiet discipline shaped the spiritual temperament of an entire era. Descended ...

Sakina Yusuf Khan goes visiting the Sultan Garhi tomb in Delhi a vivid example of India s syncretic cultureHe gets invited to every function in the locality Marriage or mundan headshaving ceremony his ...

In Naguib Mahfouz’s semi-autobiographical novel Mirrors, the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature sketched a character named Abd al-Wahhab Ismail. It is generally regarded as a portrait of ...