Month: December 2015

• December 28, 2015

  Unveiling the Hijab: a Socio-historical Overview

  Does Qur’an mandate a specific dress code for Muslim women? Hijab has been a topic of much debate and controversy both within and outside the Muslim world. In Islamic countries where a Shariah (Islamic) Law is enforced, women are required to follow a strict dress code. There are also many countries where millions of Muslims live and…
• December 26, 2015

  Traditionalist Islam and the death of inductive intellect

  One of the characteristic features of most reverential legends is that they obfuscate more than they reveal about religious personalities. When the Prophet of Islam returned to Mecca, his point of origin, in January 630 and consummated what Ziauddin Sardar (a scholar/writer/critic specializing in Muslim thought, in his seminal work “Mecca: The Sacred City”, 2014)…
• December 17, 2015

  Let Me Be Clear

    Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.                                                                                …
• December 13, 2015

  Where Did We Fail?

  This article was inspired by a number of letters which have recently appeared in several Kashmir-based dailies in response to some totally bizarre statements made by Syed Ali Shah Geelani in an interview published in the daily Rising Kashmir in which he blames the people of Kashmir for the failure of the separatist movement while…