Hijra, the Islamic New Year, starts Wednesday evening. Above, a Muslim pilgrim prays atop Mount Thor in the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage Sept. 19, 2015. Ahmad Masood/Reuters ...

According to Wiki, the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam) arrived in Medina on this day (on the Western calendar) in 622 CE, completing the Hijra, or “withdrawal,” from Mecca, the city in ...

Rebecca Gould, the author of the forthcoming book Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus, is a professor of humanities at the University of Bristol. In recent decades, the ...

When Rama was leaving Ayodhya to begin his fourteen-year exile in the forest, such was his popularity, so great the devotion of his people towards him, that the entire kingdom followed him to the ...

Despite its provocative title, Me Hijra, Me Laxmi is foremost the story of an exceptional human being. It is an honest and insightful account of how Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, the eldest son of an ...

In recent decades, the Arabic word jihad -- once used to describe the duty of all Muslims to act according to their faith -- has become overwhelmingly associated with the waging of violent war against ...

Nineteenth-century British travel writers and colonial officials rarely passed on the opportunity to prefix some derogatory hyperbole to the word ‘eunuch.’ Frequently they offered extensive defamation ...