Hanging An Imposter
In 1859, the East India Company hanged a Jammu Faqeer in Sialkot for claiming to be a prophet. Its details were published by Lahore...
Kashmir: The Haj Economy
Almost every year, more than 30,000 Muslims go on Haj and Umrah pilgrimages from Jammu and Kashmir and spend more than Rs 750 crore....
Yatra’s Two Sides
While the arrangements for the Amarnath Yatra 2019 are exceptionally upgraded from both the axis, the curfew-like restrictions on the movement of commuters and...
Converting Kashmir
Kashmir’s transition to Islam has multiple stakeholders over a long period of time. But for converting Kashmir into an Iran-e-Sageer, little Iran, by making...
Like Father, Like Son
A decade after Amir-e-Kabir’s departure, his son came with 300 preachers. But his nearly two-decade-long sojourn in Srinagar witnessed a chain of events, still...
Kashmir’s Amir-e-Kabir Days
The period between 1371 and 1405, during the initial days of the Shahmiri Sultanate, was extremely crucial in Kashmir’s transition to Islam. It witnessed...
Science Behind Ramadan Fasting
by Dr Zeenat Farooq
Apart from the spiritual experience that a person undergoes during Ramadan fasting, there are tremendous scientific benefits of the month-long fasting....
Kashmir’s First Preacher
In this brief write-up, Dr Darakhshan Abdullah offers an idea about Islam’s emphasis on preaching while offering basic details about Kashmir’s first missionary preacher,...
Business of Death
Unlike most of the Muslim societies, the death in parts of Kashmir triggers a protracted commercial exercise that involves a set of professionals and...
The Bilirubin Bub
Faith healing is a scientifically accepted way-out. In Srinagar outskirts lives Abdul Qadir who treats more than 15000 patients a month and is considered...
Burdened Backs
As the season’s incident free Amarnath Yatra came to a close with nearly three lakh pilgrims paying their respects at the shrine cave deep...
Sheikh-ul-Aalam: A Rediscovery
In the last 500 years, most of the literature produced about the movement that Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani led in medieval Kashmir is shrouded in...
Islam’s First Kashmir Address
Islam existed in Kashmir even 200 years before Kalhana wrote his Rajatarangni. But the immigrants who would come as mercenaries and traders would mostly...
Taking Quran to Dogras’
Amid tensions across J&K, there is one great development: the Quran is finally having a Dogri translation and it will be out this summer....
Not In Good Faith
The ground zero debates dominating the spaces of faith and belief indicate divisions and sub-divisions of a society that was considered homogeneous, reports Muhammad...