Indian expatriates in the Arab world represent a continuation of the enduring India-Arabia relations that date back centuries and enabled enriching exchanges in literature, science, and spirituality, going much beyond Islam and its propagation
The Prophet Muhammad primarily lived a monogamous life with his first wife, Khadijah, for 25 years, and his subsequent marriages were largely for political and humanitarian reasons, contrary to historical distortions about his marital life, particularly concerning Aisha, stemming from later fabrications
The 140-foot high gold-painted statue of Murugan, the world’s largest statue of the deity and sixth tallest Hindu sculpture near the base of a 272-step flight to the entrance of the Batu Caves near Kaula Lumpur, is an emblem of multiculturalism in Muslim-majority Malaysia, where Indians are the third largest ethnic group
Myriad delights, religious landmarks, and cultural richness—including the world’s tallest Hindu statue—testify to the commitment of Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country, to multiculturalism and religious freedom
ISIS’s brutality triggered a sense of urgency that helped Iraqis rise above regional, ethnic and sectarian divides to help defeat it, and the Christian Babylon Brigade militia was among those who fought ISIS on Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s call
The shared veneration for Abrahamic religious figures is common across the Middle East and is rooted in Muslim beliefs perhaps best reflected in the 13th-century Persian poet Saadi’s poem, which likened Adam’s children to valuable limbs of one body
Nanak’s relevance has grown more than ever before as he preached against religious prejudices and founded Sikhism as a monotheistic religion and a synthesis between Islam and Hinduism
Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have invoked nostalgia for Russia and China’s imperial past to justify their expansionism
The beauty of Budapest lies in its casual and at once intense embrace of the scores of bookshops and makeshift bookstalls scattered across the city
Pakistan’s judiciary has had an unenviable record of legitimizing military rulers under the ‘doctrine of necessity but has also over the decades managed to stand out by exerting a check on the executive and the military establishment
