Tag Archives: SULTAN

Between politicised religious institutions and tempting salaries, how did Islam’s scholars maintain their independence?

Z A Rahman brings some historical background to the recent smearing of Fahreddin Pasha by UAE's foreign minister...

Throughout history the disease of nationalism is a consistent cause of the downfall of nations. In a startling display of this Abū Jahl cited that his aversion to becoming a Muslim, despite knowing that the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa ...

The Emperor Aurangzeb, who rose to the throne in the 17th Century as the sixth Mughal ruler over “India”, is often painted as a vicious, religiously intolerant, minority-suppressing fanatic, whose only job was to demolish temples in favour of mosques, ...