On 25 June 2020, Christie’s auction house in London made history. In their first in-person auction following the first set of pandemic lockdowns, they sold a Qur’an for £7 million - the highest price ever
I recently started following pages on Instagram relating to South Asian heritage and saw this caption posted by @southasianqueens: “I feel like marriage conversations and pressures often start much before the age of 24. I
Bismillahi ar-rahmani ar-Rahim In an article on the effects of secularism and liberalism on the Mosque, Dr. Abdul Hakim Sherman Jackson, observed that our contemporary approach to Islam as a mere “religion” was inspired by
Set in the ‘international zone’ of Tangier in the mid 1950s, prior to Moroccan independence, Sky Atlantic’s Little Birds seemed like the perfect escape to wind down the year. The show takes its title and
Language is what sets humanity apart: it is our unique and miraculous ability with which we express ourselves and convey our opinions, cultural roots, and identities. It is a means of communication to learn more
During the colonial era, white people refused to call Africans by their birth names. So African parents gave their children two names - an African name and a western name to better help their kids
You cannot know Islam until you know its edges. Unburdened by historical determinism that is often present at the heart of Islam, Muslims who live on the edges are capable of unleashing the type of
Although I mostly write about linguistics, I’ve recently wanted to and had the pleasure to write about my relationship with language and language’s relationship with the identity of its speakers. This has left me conscious
Doosron ko naseehat, khud miyan faseehat (He) gives others advice and he himself is only talk and no action (lit. Mr. Eloquent) This creative Urdu expression (ironically!) describes one of my earliest memories. The head
At the start of the new year, I made my way into a Manhattan coffee shop, the kind of Greenwich Village establishment frequented by women in white shirts (sans any stains) wearing big earrings and