Jyoti Malhotra would like to wake to the sounds of classical music, but there are the kids to get ready for school. Over the whirlwind that comprises the following 24 hours, she finds time to dream ...
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up a training centre for Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) commandos in Saharanpur's Deoband, known for its Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband. "Amid the ...
Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi - File Photo In a move loaded with religious symbolism and strategic significance, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s upcoming ...
The word fatwa brings to mind the orthodox and the regressive. It has a draconian ring to it. Blame it on the likes of ‘Kill Rushdie’ fatwa, issued by Ayatollah Khomeini on April 14, 1989, after the ...
DEOBAND: "Are women allowed to do a full body wax?" Just an everyday question for the "fatwa" desk at Darululoom Deoband, a famed cradle of conservative Islamic thought in north India. Hundreds of ...
HERE’S a tale of two madressahs: one Deoband north of Delhi, the other in Akora Khattak, Pakistan. Today in Deoband, at the madressah where it all began in 1866, the 4,000 students focus on religion.
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