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Pilgrimage and Piracy: The Martyr World of Haj

 1. IntroductionImagine boarding a wooden ship in the port of Calicut or Surat, knowing that somewhere on the open sea ahead, pirates were waitin...

Muhammed Shanis Munderi 1 week ago

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Writing Hajj under Colonialism: Muslim Women's Authorship, Sacred Geography, and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Safarnama of Sikandar Begum of Bhopal

Abstract This paper examines the different aspects of the Safarnama of the Hajj pilgrimage by Sikandar Begum of Bhopal, and how it transformed fr...

Muhammed Althaf KP 1 week ago

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The Metaphysical Persona: Dhimma, Historical Genealogy, and the Inter-Madhab Ontological Debate

 The Islamic legal system of classical jurisprudence worked not only as the mediator of political, social, and economic disputes of a community b...

Thanseer Mananthavady 2 weeks ago

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In Mauritania's Margins

At the heart of Islamic intellectual history lies the sophisticated practice of the Turra, a discipline where the edges of the page become the primary...

Thanveer Jaman C.K 4 weeks ago

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Breathing Life into the Margins

 Through the lens of Kitābization, the Islamic intellectual tradition is revealed not as a library of static monographs, but as a living, generat...

Muhammed Fayiz K.T Niduvat 4 weeks ago

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The Usurpation of the Centre: The Shift of Glosses into Canons

 Kitābization of Marginalia in the Islamic Scholarly Tradition The history of Islamic intellectual tradition is often misread as a static co...

Muhammed Nabeel Nadapuram 4 weeks ago

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Surveillance and the Anxious Self

Between the   hidden masterpieces of Bollywood cinema lies Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014). Set against the backdrop of a militarized Kashmi...

Muhammed Hashir K.K 3 months ago

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Digital Terra Nullius Retold

When social media platforms buried Palestinian journalism in 2024, it wasn’t a technical error—it was digital colonialism in action. These platforms n...

Muhammed Yaseen P.K.C 3 months ago

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Panopticon Persists; The Digital Apartheid's Colonial Logic

The evolution of surveillance from imperial watchtowers to biometric databases marks the rise of Colonialism 2.0. This historical system of power tran...

Muhammed Shihan PP 3 months ago

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Sudan is Dying, and We’re Just Watching

 Let’s be honest. While everyone is watching Gaza and Ukraine, a huge nightmare is happening right now in Africa. It’s January 2026, and the war...

Althaf k 4 months ago

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