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“I am the City of Knowledge and Ali is its Gate.” This saying is attributed to the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings upon him). It not only immortalizes Ali but also captures his defining characteristic. Ali...

Chloé Zhao, Director of film Nomadland Image Credit: Vegafi / Wikimedia Commons The other day, I saw a revealing movie-cum-documentary on a less-spotlighted facet of American life, called “Nomadland,” which won the best picture at the...

When Friedrich Nietzsche ran to stop the brutal owner of a horse from thrashing it mercilessly in Turin, Italy, and threw his arms around the animal crying, “I understand your pain,” it gave us an extraordinary insight...

Once I was at my office at the HEC in Islamabad and a government employee of a junior rank next to my office came to say salaam to me, probably curious about one of the few...

Fourteen centuries ago, Hazrat Ali had cautioned on the perils of pandering to the privileged few.  The contention of the great sage – widely recognized as the fountainhead of Sufism – was that whatever you do...

By Anna Gephart As a non-Muslim American I was in my “World of Islam” class at American University ready to learn about Islamic history when my professor, Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, introduced our class to the story...

Gopi Chand Narang, a leading scholar of Urdu language and literature, has said Allama Iqbal stands unique in his profound expression of the message of Karbala, where Hazrat Imam Hussain and his family offered a sublime...

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Not long after 9/11, I was invited to the White House to attend an Iftar dinner given by President George W. Bush. Some of the most prominent Muslim leaders in the United States were there, including...

Last October, Mrs Cornelia Bailey, a leading member of a tiny community of African-Americans living on Sapelo Island off the Georgia coast, passed away. This remarkable woman was a spokeswoman, storyteller, historian and preserver of her...