IN ARABIC, qaseeda means a panegyric ode and ‘burda’ means a shawl-like fabric worn over the shoulders, a mantle. Qaseeda ...

Though the number of pilgrims at Maha Kumbh is many times more than at Haj, a lot can be learned from the “crowd management” ...

Hanifa, an iconic minstrel of Islamic devotional songs in Tamil had strong links with Nagore, the town in Nagapattinam that ...

NORMATIVE Sufism is a genuine Islamic phenomenon as the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH ... Iqbal has but simply rendered in magical poetry what Sheikh Ahmad had preached as his central theme 300 ...

The brilliance of Theodor Nöldeke's mind, his awareness of Greek literature, his knowledge of three Semitic languages, and his expertise in Persian and Middle Persian made him a distinguished ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s flirtations with religiosity continued to afflict Bangladesh’s body politic much after his death.

Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jana’at, Sri Lanka. The Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at was held on the 14 ...

Muslims of Senegal consider themselves as followers of Sheikh Ibrahima Fall, and according to their beliefs, physical labor, service, good deeds, and devotion to one's Sufi master (Shaykh), are equal ...

As a poet, he specialised in Naat—the eulogy poems written in praise of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). He was a well-known nazim (master of ceremonies) of international mushairas. Farshori is survived ...

it was announced that AFDI would host a “Draw Muhammad Cartoon Contest,” in Garland, Texas. This was clearly a move by Geller to incite America’s Muslim community, as depicting the Prophet is ...

The Cultural Village Foundation-Katara announced that it has received a total of 1,105 poems participating in the 7th Katara Prize for Prophet's Poets. There was a 22 percent increase from the ...