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Qu’ranic Voice

MOST of us who read the Quran in English or Urdu do so with a quiet, unexamined assumption: that we are encountering the text...

Ramadan Without Algorithms

Something remarkable happens when a human being voluntarily chooses hunger. In a civilization engineered around stimulation, speed, and consumption, the fasting Muslim performs a...

Governance: When An Exam Refuses To Learn

In January 1997, I published an article, titled The CSS English Paper: A Scrutiny, in Dawn. The argument was simple: the English (Précis and...