A turban fastening ceremony, on Monday, honoured 58 students of the religious seminary, Jamia Farooqi in Shiekhmal area of Landi Kotal. The event was graced by Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, Allama Noorul Haq Qadri, as chief guest. Others present in the spiritual gathering included Muhammad Ilyas Banuri; Maulana Ihsanullah Junaidi; local leaders of Pakistan […]
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On Washington DC’s hidden Islamic trail
The ‘David’-like physiology and ‘Nike’ wings were Greco-Roman, but his turban, beard and ‘semitic’ face, were unmistakably of the East. He sat majestically with one arm under his chin and his right foot atop a distilling retort. “Those figures represent the building blocks of Western civilization. There’s Spain, England, the Middle Ages, even Islam is […]