By KL Wagoner When you began translating Noakhali 1946, what did you hope to accomplish? By the end of the journey, do you feel you were successful in your goals? By…
Here it is on the rise of Islam in Mecca; this is in no way comprehensive or nuanced, neither it is perfect. It is merely an overview of the rise…
Shaykh Jalauddin Tabrizi (1226 or 1244) and Shaykh Shah Jalal (1347) were the greatest Sufi saints of Bengal. Shaykh Jalauddin Tabrizi came in Bengal after Bhaktiyar Khilji conquered Bengal defeating…
Historian Richard Eaton talks of Pir Ma’bari Khandaya who came to the Deccan as a holy warrior: “During the period of Ala al-Din Khalaji (Alauddin Khilji, d, 1316), the Shah…
In the Islamic world Jahiliya is a place of ignorance, before the coming of Islamic in Arabia. This is how the text books in Pakistan are portraying their thousands of…
A significant proportion of male black slaves were castrated and used in Muslim lands as eunuchs, to guard the harems and serve as attendants at holy sites such as the…
There was widespread castration of slaves in Bengal during Mughal Emperor Jahangir, which had become a widespread practice in India. It appears that since Bhaktiyar Khilji’s conquest of Bengal in…
From Feminist Author, Taslima Nasrin, “A Mother Told her Daughter’s Rapists To Come One By One” Bangladesh October 8, 2001: An Islamic nation with Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian minorities: Ani…
“It is important to note that, throughout the entire period of Muslim rule, the lower caste Hindus and Sikhs joined the resistance and rebellion against Muslim rulers in large number-…
According to Sinha and Dasgupta, “Conversion was not merely a shift of faith, conversion is much deeper rooted, much more a question of society and civic life and it involves…
"However ludicrous and unjust it may appear to rational minds, Jihad, in one form or another, will play a vigorous role on the world-stage in coming decades. In the course…
In the princely state of Bahawalpur in Sindh, first to be conquered by Muslim invaders --- the last nawab, who ruled until 1954 before its incorporation into Pakistan, "had more…