Tag: identity
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Fasting as an Entry into a Transcendent Cosmic Realm
The author explores the crisis of meaning within modernity, emphasizing the loss of metaphysical grounding and identity amid neoliberal consumerism. It presents fasting as a transformative practice, aligning the self with divine attributes and serving as a resistance against hyper-individualism. Fasting purifies the soul, bridging human experience with transcendence and spiritual elevation.
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Redeemable Representation of the Modern Muslimah
When it comes to exploring the Muslim identity in the realm of fiction, one is hard-pressed to find a story that provides a realistic narrative for the lay Muslim…Novels that debunk popular stereotypes and endeavor to reconcile the Muslim identity with the twenty-first century are finally on the rise.
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المعاناة في صمت : هوية المسلم الجديد
إحدى القضايا التي تتغاضى عنها المجتمعات المسلمة في الغرب هي “رعاية المسلم الجديد” ، أي إظهار التعاطف والتقدير لمن يُنسى غالبا في المجتمع.
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Suffering in Silence: The Convert Identity
An issue that Muslim communities in the West turn a blind eye to is “convert care,” that is, showing compassion to and acknowledgment of the often forgotten in society.
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Ayasofya: The Dagger Removed
“Either I will conquer you or you will conquer me”; this sentence, uttered by Fatih Sultan Mehmet, referred to Istanbul.
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Relics of Triumphalism
A source of perennial controversy—and a widely celebrated architectural achievement of early Byzantium—Hagia Sophia has switched hands more times than perhaps anyone cares to remember.
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Minority Educational Issues in India
India is globally known as a diverse country. Diversity is its chief characteristic. Thousands of languages, countless cultures and practices, different religions and faiths; every state and every district in the country boasts its uniqueness.
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Ideology and Globalization
Defining “ideology” is a burdensome feat, as the term is used in a plethora of diverse contexts.
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Could English be an Islamic Language?
I’ve questioned how much of my understanding of Islam is colored by the lens that my primary language, English, provides.