He said that scholars and clerics from India, Pakistan and other countries delivered their sermons on the tenants of Islam as the devotees slept in tents erected on the riverbank. Security checkpoints and camaras have been installed, while plainclothes security officials joine...
Last week, a tragic farce overwhelmed India just as Narendra Modi was promoting his ambitious “Make in India” program to spur domestic manufacturing. It began with Zee News, a jingoistic and vastly influential television channel, whose owner had openly campaigned for Modi’s election in 2014. ...
- Protesters rallied outside the Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, aka Facebook, accusing the social media platform of inciting violence against Muslims in India. "Basically we are trying to bring awareness to the masses here for what Facebook is doing in India. They are technically promoting ...
In 1166, Al-Idrisi, the well-known Muslim scholar who served the Sicilian court, produced very accurate maps, including a world map with all the continents and their mountains, rivers and famous cities. Al-Muqdishi was the first geographer to produce accurate maps in color. Spain was ruled ...
celebrated Buddhists logician was a student of Nalanda and later lived at Kanchi, Bodhidharma who went to China to preach the doctrine of Lord Buddha was a monk from Kanchi, South India and they all preached and propagated Buddhism in Thailand, China and ...
Asaduddin Owaisi said that the Telangana Congress chief was speaking likeRSS leaderswho always sayMuslimsandIslamcame to India from outside. While addressing a public meeting in the old city on Thursday night. “We have not come from Maharashtra. We are the children of Adam, entire India is...
The Piri Reis Map, shown below, is the oldest surviving map to show the Americas. It is not European, surprisingly, but Turkish. It bears a date of 919 in the Moslem calendar, corresponding to 1513 in the Western Calendar. It is in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, a fabulous museum and...
In India there have historically been tensions between Indian Muslims and Indians of other religions. These tensions were exploited and exacerbated by colonial British rulers and in the modern day became manifest as growing Islamophobia on the subcontinent. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which advo...