Doha: The Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center, in cooperation with Qatar Radio, presents the Urdu-language programme Noor wa Baseera. The programme receives listeners’ questions ...

Bangladesh Islamic Foundation is moving forward with plans to launch its own line of madrasas where Urdu and Arabic will be given priority. Draft syllabuses and curricula of this proposed new ...

Doha: In a continued effort to meet the spiritual and educational needs of Qatar’s diverse expatriate communities, the Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center has launched a series ...

PHILOSOPHY and philosophers have usually been target of jokes. The disrespect for philosophy is not uncommon in our society alone, but the westerners also do not hesitate to poke fun at philosophers.

In this article we’ll try to shed some light on knowledge from Islamic perspective. Generally speaking, the Arabic word for knowledge is 'ilm, which, in most cases, indicates to Islamic knowledge or ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Dr Muhammad Yousuf Khushk lauded the valuable contribution of noted Urdu poet, dramatist, critic, columnist and fiction writer, Amjad Islam Amjad ...

The State-run West Bengal Urdu Academy, which was all set to hold a four-day festival to celebrate Urdu in Hindi cinema, has put off the event following opposition from some Islamic organisations to ...

Sanskritic words were removed from the Urdu language and Islamic cultural allusions and metaphors were put in place. (For those who want details please refer to chapter five of my book, entitled From ...