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Mawlid: A History of Devotion and the Spectacle of Jahalat
Mawlid, or the birth of Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, has become a topic of controversy among different sects of Muslims, and it’s not black or white; it’s mostly a spectrum of people making it an unacceptable biddat or celebrating it with D...
The Delhi of 1947
When we think of Delhi in 1947, the images that usually come to mind are of freedom. Jawaharlal Nehru raising the tricolour over the capital, crowds filling the streets, and the excitement of a country that had finally become independent af...
More than 95% of the Islamic heritage of Mecca has disappeared since 20th century.
How did two of Islam’s most important cities lose so much of their historical landscape?
To understand this, we have to go back to 1744, when Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab allied with Muhammad ibn Saud. Their movement condemned shirk and bid’...
The Missing Half of Partition: Delhi's Muslims and the Making of the Muhajir World
On most evenings, as the crowds drift through Purana Qila, nobody thinks about September 1947.
Children run along the ramparts. Couples sit on the grass. Tourists photograph the walls and read plaques describing Sher Shah Suri and Humayun....
Remnants of the Ghazni Palace in Delhi
In much of the current historical discourse, the beginning of the Islamic incursions into the Indian subcontinent is often linked to Mahmud of Ghazni. What is less often mentioned is that his great-grandson, Masʿud III, built a magnificent...
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