"A son is a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life." We all have heard this old proverb ad nauseam. But the kind of insouciance shown by three daughters towards their old ...

A heart-wrenching piece of news saddened me no end. A 74-yr-old cloth merchant, Shivcharan Gupta, living in an old-age home in Haryana's Sonipat was cremated with none of his three daughters present, ...

Increasingly worried about the threat from militant groups inside Pakistan, the US is trying to develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the security challenges this poses to Afghanistan, ...

Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (603-680 CE), the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, remains one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in the annals of Islamic history. His transition from the ...

In an age grappling with profound global challenges, from geopolitical complexities to rapid technological advancements, Muslims worldwide find themselves facing an unprecedented plethora of ethical, ...

In recent times, social media platforms have become channels for spreading misconceptions about the Qur’an, with sceptics alleging contradictions through selective quotations and misinterpretations.

This article holds significant contextual relevance in contemporary discussions about Islam, extremism, and the role of religious interpretation in shaping socio-political realities. By dissecting the ...

Ustad Ahmad Lahori was the chief architect for Emperor Shah Jahan, who honoured him with the title "Nadir-ul-Asar"(Wonder of the Age). His designs fused Indo-Islamic, Timurid, and Persian elements, ...

In my article Religion as a Civilizing Influence which I wrote three and a half years ago, I had argued that it is the moral principles from religion that have civilized us and without them; we would ...

The Big Bang Theory is the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe. In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson’s ground-breaking discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) ...

The Harvard theologian, Diana Eck, has commented that the exclusivist affirms identity in a complex world of plurality by a return to the firm foundations of his or her own tradition and an emphasis ...

The Muslim world’s scientific glory peaked during the Islamic Golden Age, but declined due to political instability and a lack of economic integration. A ban on import of printing presses for close to ...