An Encounter with History in Aurangabad
No one could possibly have imagined that the six and last Mughal emperor,Aurangzeb, would lie close to his enemy, Abul Hasan Tana Shah in theireternal sleep at Khuldabad, which lies…
Iqbal’s Masjid-e Qurtaba is a flawed classic
Muhammed Iqbal, the Indian Subcontinent’s much loved Urdu poet, wrote a stirring poem titled Masjid-e Qurtaba after his visit to Cordova, Spain, in 1933. In the minds of the Urdu-speaking…
Hindutva turn against Indian syncretism
Why did Savarkar / Hindutva turn against Indian syncretism, and India’s march toward modernity? Damodar Vinayak Savarkar’s seminal book “The Essentials of Hindutva” was published in 1923. That was the…
“Islamization of Knowledge” and how Muqtedar Khan demolished the idea.
An Intellectual History of Modern Muslim of Hyderabad When Jamaluddin Afghani was expelled by Egypt’s ruler in 1879, he headed for Hyderabad Deccan where he spent two years teaching and…
The Jewish Experience’s Relevance for Indian Muslims in Hindutva Times
It is the late 1930s Nazi Germany in India of today — on the eve of destruction — as far as its 200+ million Muslims are concerned. The world knows…
