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ISLAMABAD: A new group show opened at Khaas Gallery on Saturday, featuring works of six contemporary artists who are...

What role did homoeroticism play in Islamic poetry written between the 13th and 15th centuries? We need look no further than Rumi and Babur. By Melanie Christina Mohr

Like meditation, prayer too is above religion May 10, 2021, 7:39 AM IST ‘More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.’ – Alfred Tennyson In these precarious times when life is on the precipice and so precarious that anything might happen at any moment, the beleaguered mankind turns to god and resorts to fervent prayers. A handful of hardcore atheists may snigger at this. But years ago I remember reading, ‘A prayer has nothing to do with theism or atheism. It’s even beyond spirituality. A prayer, like universal morality, is non-theistic. It’s a ges...

Everybody's darling A Hollywood film project and a joint attempt by Iran and Turkey to register the principal works of the poet Rumi with the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list have recently caused political turmoil, above all, in Afghanistan. By Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi What is currently on the minds of Afghans? Of all things, a 13th century poet and Sufi mystic, albeit one of the most famous – Rumi. Even after 800 years, his poems are familiar to many in the Persian-speaking world, namely Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan. The reason for the commotion, which, of course is mai...

For this bookseller of Kabul, the pandemic was a blip in a country afflicted by long-term war Shah Muhammed Rais of Shah M Book Company fame was inadvertently prepared for the pandemic. Inside Shah M Book Company, Kabul “…But all this world is like a tale we hear Men’s evil, and their glory, disappear.” This is one of the 50,000 couplets that make up 10th century poet Abul Qasem Firdausi’s Shah Nameh: The Book of Kings, a masterpiece in Persian that offers philosophical insight into almost every human dilemma. That, at least is the feeling of Afghanistan’s legendary book...