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On Pakistan’s 75th anniversary, London-based research centre Bloomsbury Pakistan launched the Bloomsbury Book Prize with the...

A scholarly new book endeavours to unravel how the Subcontinent’s 19th century Muslim community came to see itself as a nation

Panelists such as Osman Yousefzada, Nguyen Phan Que Mai and Osman Siddiqui were part of the event this year.

Despite the unseasonably warm weather, the Lahore Literary Festival’s return to an in-person event showed that festival audien...

How Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s reformist ‘Tehzibul Akhlaq’ set off a culture war on Islamic traditions in pre-Partition India