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Shankaracharya hill is testimony to Kashmir’s rich past

Battle of Karbala

Non Muslim writers have eulogized Hussain and Karbala

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Poor Qurbani waste disposal exposes Kashmir to water pollution, disease

Amir Suhail Wani In Kashmir, Eid al-Adha has always been more than a ritual. It is an expression of devotion, generosity, hospitality, and community. Houses remain open, neighbours exchange meat, families gather after long separations, and the valleys echo with religious fervour. Yet, alongside this sacred atmosphere, another disturbing scene has increasingly become common across towns and villages: heaps of sheep skin abandoned near roads...

Frithjof Schuon's Understanding Islam helped shape perceptions of Islam

Amir Suhail Wani Understanding Islam by Frithjof Schuon is a deeply contemplative exploration of Islam’s inner meaning, spiritual symbolism, metaphysical foundations, and universal significance. Through elegant philosophical prose and penetrating spiritual insight, Schuon seeks to unveil what he regarded as the essential and timeless reality underlying Islamic revelation. The result is a work that continues to influence sch...

Unveiling the spiritual and intellectual core of Islam

Amir Suhail Wani The Heart of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a deeply reflective work that seeks to recover the spiritual and intellectual essence of Islam when the religion is being reduced to political headlines and misrepresentations. Written in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the book is a scholarly attempt to present Islam from within its own sacred and philosophical framework. Book Review Nasr is not only trying to addres...

Moosa Raza's book explores spiritual bridge between religions

Amir Suhail Wani At a time when religious identities are increasingly mobilised to create distance rather than deepen understanding, In Search of Oneness: The Bhagavad Gita and the Quran through Sufi Eyes by Moosa Raza emerges as a deeply contemplative and much-needed intervention. The book is not merely a comparative reading of two sacred texts—the Bhagavad Gita and the Quran – but a sincere and introspective journey into ...

Religions have inbuilt system of tolerance and inclusivity: A Book Review

Amir Suhail Wani At a time when religion is cast as a source of division, conflict, and exclusion, Religious Tolerance: A History by Arvind Sharma offers a counterintuitive and intellectually provocative thesis: that the resources for tolerance are not external correctives imposed upon religion, but are deeply embedded within the traditions themselves. Sharma, a scholar of comparative religion, undertakes an ambitious historical survey...

Islam doesn't endorse forced conversion

Amir Suhail Wani Richard Thomas Walker, in his seminal work The Spread of Islam – A Story of Peaceful Preaching, classified religions into missionary and non-missionary traditions, placing Islam firmly within the former category. As a missionary religion, Islam views the invitation to faith as a meaningful and even commendable act. Yet, a careful and historically grounded engagement with Islam’s foundational sources—the Q...

Islam's inclusive recognition of truth in other religions

Amir Suhail Wani From the beginning, Islam recognised the truth found in other religions and ideologies, and it never shied away from appreciating and elevating that truth which existed beyond its borders. Quran, being explicit on the subject matter, says, “believers (Muslims), Jews, Christians, and Sabians—whoever truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good deeds—will receive their reward from their Lord, with...

Amir Khusrau is a big icon of plural India

Amir Suhail Wani The life of Amir Khusrau unfolds as one of the most luminous chapters in the cultural and spiritual history of India. Born in 1253 CE in Patiyali (present-day Uttar Pradesh), Khusrau was the son of a Turkic father and an Indian mother. His early exposure to diverse linguistic, cultural, and spiritual traditions shaped his extraordinary thoughts. A prodigious talent, he entered royal courts at a young age and served sev...

Ameer Khusrau is a big icon of plural India

Amir Suhail Wani The life of Amir Khusrau unfolds as one of the most luminous chapters in the cultural and spiritual history of India. Born in 1253 CE in Patiyali (present-day Uttar Pradesh), Khusrau was the son of a Turkic father and an Indian mother. His early exposure to diverse linguistic, cultural, and spiritual traditions shaped his extraordinary thoughts. A prodigious talent, he entered royal courts at a young age and served sev...

Eid celebration should carry on the ethos of moderation

Amir Suhail Wani Eid ul-Fitr, the festival that marks the completion of the blessed month of Ramadan, is fundamentally a celebration of restraint, gratitude, and spiritual elevation. It comes after thirty days of fasting, self-discipline, charity, and reflection—days in which a believer consciously limits even lawful pleasures in pursuit of nearness to Allah. Yet, paradoxically, the very day meant to crown this discipline is ofte...

Shab-e-Qadr comes with tradition, devotion and cultural expression

Amir Suhail Wani Shab‑e‑Qadr (the Night of Power or Night of Decree) occupies a uniquely exalted position in the spiritual life of Muslims. In India, with its long history of Islamic scholarship, Sufi spirituality, and vibrant community life, the observance of Shab-e-Qadr has developed into a deeply rooted religious and cultural tradition. Blending spiritual devotion with local customs and communal practices, the night is marke...

Islamic scholar Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas linked knowledge to godliness

Amir Suhail Wani Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas is among the most influential Muslim intellectuals of the twentieth century, particularly in debates about knowledge, civilisation, and education in the modern Muslim world. His work is all the more relevant at a time when many Muslim societies were grappling with the intellectual consequences of colonialism, secularisation, and the expansion of Western scientific and educational paradigms. ...

Battle of Badr challenges the modern notion of war and conflict

Amir Suhail Wani The Battle of Badr, fought on the sands near Madinah in 624 CE, stands as one of the most formative moments in early Islamic history. Yet its relevance extends far beyond its immediate military outcome. In an age marked by protracted conflicts, deepening polarisation, and an almost normalised exposure to violence and human suffering, Badr offers a moral vocabulary that speaks urgently to the contemporary world. It is n...

Battle of Bard challenges the modern notion of war and conflict

Amir Suhail Wani The Battle of Badr, fought on the sands near Madinah in 624 CE, stands as one of the most formative moments in early Islamic history. Yet its relevance extends far beyond its immediate military outcome. In an age marked by protracted conflicts, deepening polarisation, and an almost normalised exposure to violence and human suffering, Badr offers a moral vocabulary that speaks urgently to the contemporary world. It is n...

Understanding the extremist plague within Islam – “The Great Theft”

Amir Suhail Wani The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl is a powerful and intellectually rigorous intervention in one of the most urgent debates within contemporary Muslim thought: who speaks for Islam in the modern world? Written in the shadow of the post-9/11 global climate, the book is neither an apologetic tract nor a polemical denunciation. Instead, it is a deeply reflective, historica...

Ramzan in Kashmir adds to Valley's syncretic traditions

Amir Suhail Wani The arrival of Ramzan in Kashmir has historically carried meanings far deeper than the beginning of a calendar month. It has been welcomed as a season of inward reflection, ethical renewal, social compassion, and cultural continuity shaped by the Valley’s long tradition of spiritual pluralism. While fasting remains the central Islamic observance, the manner in which Ramzan has been culturally received in Kashmir refl...

Why reviving Ganga-Jamuni culture is the need of the hour

Amir Suhail Wani Indian civilisation has a remarkable capacity for synthesis, accommodation, and coexistence. Among the most evocative expressions of this spirit is the Ganga–Jamuni Tehzeeb, a phrase drawn from the cultural geography of North India, where the rivers Ganga and Yamuna flow. Over time, the term has come to signify not merely a regional cultural style but a broader ethos of shared living in which Hindu and Muslim traditi...

Shab-e-Barāt: Mercy, memory, and moral reckoning in the Islamic realm

Amir Suhail Wani Among the nights venerated within the Islamic sacred calendar, the fifteenth night of Shaʿbān—commonly known as Shab-e-Barāt—occupies a distinctive and complex position. Neither a festival nor a legally mandated observance, it has nevertheless endured across centuries as a night of heightened moral consciousness, spiritual accounting, and communal remembrance. Its persistence within Muslim de...

Islam does not need to rule the world to be true

Amir Suhail Wani The modern political imagination of Islam, articulated most forcefully by Abul A‘la Maududi, Syed Qutb, and a long line of their ideological descendants, represents one of the most consequential intellectual distortions in Muslim history. What makes this project not merely flawed but deeply absurd is its attempt to retrofit Islam—a moral, spiritual, and civilizational tradition—into the mould of modern po...

Islam does not need to rule the world to be true

Amir Suhail Wani The modern political imagination of Islam, articulated most forcefully by Abul A‘la Maududi, Syed Qutb, and a long line of their ideological descendants, represents one of the most consequential intellectual distortions in Muslim history. What makes this project not merely flawed but deeply absurd is its attempt to retrofit Islam—a moral, spiritual, and civilizational tradition—into the mould of modern po...

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