The violent communist regime in Afghanistan forced Dr. Sima Samar to flee her homeland in the 1980s, but she has since become a powerful force inside Karzai's administration and through her aid ...

According to Shia version of Sharia law, marrying a girl [either adult or infant] is legitimate in Iran. Any male can marry a girl or woman in that country, which is under the cruel grips of ...

لفظ’مذہب‘ اور لفظ ’دین‘ میں مفہوم کے اعتبار سے بڑافرق ہے ۔ اگر چہ ہمارے ہاں عام طور پر اسلام کو مذہب کہا جاتا ہے، لیکن دلچسپ بات یہ ہے کہ پورے قرآن مجید میں اور حدیث کے ذخیرہ میں اسلام کیلئے ...

The idea of a free media is one that we at NewAgeIslam.com hold in the highest regard. We believe in bringing our site visitors, readers and audio listeners or video viewers the widest possible array ...

LaaYamoot: Ek Khudnawisht, the autobiographical work of Rashid Shaz, stands as a monumental testament to the turbulent ...

This study on the spread of Islam in Kerala examines the arrival and growth of Islam in Kerala and other reasons that drove it. The spread and growth of Islam in Kerala from the advent of Islam to the ...

Congress president Maulana Abul Kalam Azad gave the following interview to journalist Shorish Kashmiri for a Lahore based Urdu magazine, Chattan, in April 1946. It was a time when the Cabinet Mission ...

[Translator's Note: Very little has been written on the existence of caste and caste-based discrimination among the Indian Muslims. ‘Upper’ caste Muslims, who, although a very small minority among the ...

Recently Wasim Rizvi, the former chairman of Shia Waqf Board in Uttar Pradesh filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking to remove 26 verses from the Quran. In this petition he has said that these ...

خانقاہوں کا معاملہ اگرچہ فطری طور پر کچھ جدا تھا۔ وہاں کتاب اصل سرمایہ نہیں ہوتی، دلوں کی وارداتیں ہوتی ہیں۔ پیر کی ایک نگاہ، ...

In my article Religion as a Civilizing Influence which I wrote three and a half years ago, I had argued that it is the moral principles from religion that have civilized us and without them; we would ...

The Big Bang Theory is the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe. In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson’s ground-breaking discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) ...