Adhkiyā and Mappila Ghazali | Interview with Shameer K S

Hidāyat al Adhkiyā is a text in circulation. A small text of 188 lines has created deeper meanings for Muslims in South Asia and far eastern regions. The text is testimony to how Makhdūm scholars remained an ethical compass of Muslim societies through their scholarship. Other Books recently published Adhkiya in English. Adhkiya’s English translator, Shameer K S, in this

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Sharjah Turns New Pages

Conveying somber mood over his non-participation this year, MUHAMMED NOUSHAD remembers the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair and the encounters he had with the people and books during the fair, as the event this year  has ended last week. In a November midnight in 2011, Ali Ahsan and I landed in Sharjah Airport, to attend the 30th Sharjah International Book

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‘Co-existence is the Only Way Ahead for Jews & Arabs’

SUSAN NATHAN is a British born Israeli writer, counsellor and peace activist. Her book The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish -Arab Divide analytically describes her experiences of living in an Arab village inside Israel. She brings into notice the discrimination within Israeli society and advocates peace and co-existence between Jews and Arabs. Her book was translated into Malayalam, by Dr. Abdulla

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