In her dissertation about Persian poetry, doctoral student Ahoo Najafian offers a rare glimpse into the poetry of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the English-speaking world. While Khomeini is ...

As a prominent Islamic scholar, Omid Safi has written often in defense of the breadth and nuance of Islam. But for his latest book, Safi hones in on the idea of love, and how mystic Islamic poets ...

If awards are any measure of excellence, Doyali Islam is a very good poet! She is nominated for a slew of them this year, and has just won the League of Canadian Poets' National Broadsheet Contest. A ...

In the 43rd verse of the Quran’s fourth chapter, God limits the activities Muslims may carry out while drunk. “You who believe, do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated, until you know what ...

KARACHI, March 5: Speakers shed light on Qazi Nazrul Islam's tumultuous life and multi-genre work at a seminar on Saturday. Titled 'Qazi Nazrul Islam's contribution to human rights and Bengali ...

This interview originally aired on June 1, 2019. Doyali Islam is an award-winning poet and author based in Toronto. Her 2019 collection, Heft, looks at the nature of illness, pain and sexuality and ...

SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: A cancelled Hollywood project prompted a professor at Cambridge University in England to translate the works of a legendary pre-Islamic Arab poet into modern English.

KARACHI, March 5: Speakers shed light on Qazi Nazrul Islam's tumultuous life and multi-genre work at a seminar on Saturday. Titled 'Qazi Nazrul Islam's contribution to human rights and Bengali ...