On my recent trip to Sharjah I visited the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation . What i loved was the...

Today is the International Day of Islamic Art: Calligraphy is one of the most beautiful form of artistic and spiritual...

International Day of Islamic Art from Walters Museum, Baltimore Plate with a View of a Religious Interior Syria, 15th century...

General Jean-Francois Allard with his family in Lahore attributed to Imam Baksh, 1838. ⁦‪@Sothebys‬⁩ October 23 auction, which I i...

#DastarkhwaneRamzan While leading the fajr prayers in masjid e Kufa, on 19th Ramzan, 40Hijri/ 661 CE, Hazrat Ali was struck...

#DastarkhwaneRamzan If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell! If I adore you out of...

#DastarkhwaneRamzan The evolution of Islamic art and culture initially upheld the prohibition against depicting living beings. However, as Islam spread,...

#DastarkhwaneRamzan To understand the essence of Islam it is important to understand the Hadith of Jibraeel, also known as Umm-e...

#DastarkhwaneRamzan We all know that the Muslim creed is based on the principle of Tauheed or One God. How did...

The Church of Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus in The Cave popularly known as Abu Serga in Cairo, is a Coptic...

Once upon a time he held great power as Wazir to the Mughal Emperor during the Uprising of 1857. The...

Rao Surjan Singh (r. 1554-1585) allied with the Mughals & served as governor of Varanasi and came in contact with...

"Verily, My Mercy prevails over My Wrath.”~ Hadith e Qudsi "And He is the Oft-Forgiving and Loving" (Al-Buruj 85:14) Shab...

The entire area of the Qila e Mubarak ( As Red Fort, Delhi was originally named) was dotted with buildings....

In Jainism, Mount Meru is a sacred cosmic mountain considered to be the center of the Jain universe. It is...

Tedhi Qabr Come ashoor or 10th Muharram and Sham-e Gariban majlises are held across the world. While the hadith in...

Calligraphy on Gravestones/cenotaphs are an art in itself. Here we have ayat 26-27 of Surah Rahman with a message for...

Munshi Mohammed Ali Tashnah was an eccentric poet in Ghalib's era who came to mushairas in a state of inebriety...

In 1359, Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq stopped at a place called Zafarabad, on the river Ganges on his way to campaign against the Ilyas Shahi rulers of Lakhnauti in Bengal. Zafarabad was...

This innocuous looking building in Delhi's Adhchini, is of great import. it was once the house of Sheikh Najibuddin Mutawakkil,...

Burial in dargahs is said to reflect some of the saint's barakat to the dead person 's soul. That is...

Post Uprising of 1857 , after the British forces gained control of Delhi, the city was ravaged and looted. Notables...

Did you know that Iblis or Shaitan (Satan) was a jinn and not an angel? The Quran mentions only jinn,...

‪"Here we will create a pool of literature. No one of my Sikhs should remain illiterate." ‬ ‪Gurudwara Lekhensar Sahib‬...

Under the Lodi Sultans, it was the tribal Afghan system that was followed. Each tribal chief was important and thus...

14th September 1857, as described in Dastan e Ghadar by Zahir Dehlvi: "When I reached the bazaar via the Jama...

    Fall of Delhi OTD 1857 Despite strict orders against individual looting, many of Delhi's treasures filled the pockets...

17th September,1857, the Last Mughal Emperor left the Red Fort to return three days later as a prisoner. Exiled to...

‪ On the night of 17th September, 1857 the emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar left the Red Fort using the khizri...

20th September 1857 ‪Jahanabad tu kab is sitam ke qaabil tha‬ ‪Magar kabho kisi ashiq ka ye nagar dil tha‬...