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Thunjath Ezhuthachan : The Father of Malayalam language

Thunjath Ezhuthachan was born around 450 years ago in Malappuram district. The story of his birth is mixed with myths and truths. His real name was Ramanujan and signs of brilliance were evident in his childhood. He traveled extensively in search of knowledge and returned to Thrikandiyur, his birthplace, after mastering the religious sciences.
The privileged […]

PMSA Pookoya Thangal: The dazzling light of today’s daybreak

‘Today is the sound continuation of Yesterday’
The flowers of past used to blossom in Imam’s gatherings. These moments tied present with the past. He was particular that ‘Today was the sound continuation of yesterday’. Today’s daybreak acquired its light from the fading light of yesterday’s twilight. History is not meager tales of past events. It […]

The fall of Ottoman Caliphate and the Indian Khilafat Movement

Introduction
A western critic once wrote that a visitor from Mars who arrived on earth during the sixteenth century would have probably concluded that the world was on the verge of becoming Muslim. No doubt, with the Mughal Empire in the Indian Subcontinent in the East, Safavid Empire in the center and the Ottoman empire in […]

Winning the rights @ MeraWatan

In what turned out to be a turning point for the efforts to solve decades-old problems faced by the NRI community worldwide, the present government of Kerala has taken bold steps to embrace a path of action shunning the bygone era of ‘empty promises, shouting slogans and holding seminars’.
Jiji Thomson, the secretary of the NORKA […]

Genesis and Growth of the Mappila Community

Contributed to Jaihoon.com by Dr. Hussein Randathani. Posted on December 16 2005
The long-standing Arab contact

CH Mohammed Koya: The Architect of Malabar

Architect of Modern Malabar
C.H. Mohammed Koya was the son of Ahmed Musliyar and Mariyumma. He was born on July 15 1927 at Attoli of Calicut district. His father was a countryside doctor and a specialist in Yunani Medicine. The family had to face many hardships in their life.
At high School was his primary experience of […]

Gujarat: Missing hands and heads

ArabNews.com | 01-05-2002
NEW DELHI, 30 April — Members of the ruling Hindu extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were directly involved in the killings of hundreds of Muslims in the western state of Gujarat, which were preplanned and could spread throughout the country, Human Rights Watch charged yesterday.
The New York-based rights group said the state government […]

India: ‘Vedantic brain, an Islamic body and a Christian heart’

[TIMES NEWS NETWORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002 ] Narayanan says onus of peace on majority
NEW DELHI: Taking a gentle but pointed swipe at those who have used ‘‘the poison of communalism’’ to cause ‘‘so much violence and hatred in some parts of our country’’, outgoing President K R Narayanan said on Wednesday that ‘‘the Hindus, […]

Partition would have been averted, if Nehru heeded to Gandhi’s choice of Jinnah

Source: MadhyamamOnline, http://www.madhyamamonline.in/news_archive_details.asp?id=4&nid=87590&dt=1/31/2006
(Kollam, Kerala:) “The partition of India could have been avoided, had leaders including Nehru accepted Gandhi’s wish to make Mohammed Ali Jinnah as the Prime Minister of India” said Venkata Kalyanam, the personal assistant of Gandhi.
He was speaking at the ‘Meet the Press’ program organized by the Press Club. ‘Predicting there be communal […]

The Indian Prime Minister pays homage to Ali Mian.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee joined the Muslim world in mourning the sudden death of. . .

Maktubat-Letters of Imam Sirhind: Ali Mian’s testimonial

Our family has been intimately connected, at least for the past three hundred years, intellectually. . .

Life sketch of Shah Waliyullah

Life sketch of Shah Waliyullah

Birth

Shah Waliyullah was born in 1703 AC four years before. . .

Iqbal: A bridge between East and the West

By Saeed A. Durrani, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, England
Essay read at the International Symposium on ‘Iqbal and the Modern Era’ held at Ghent, Belgium, on 18-19 November 1997 under the auspices of Iqbal Foundation Europe. This version was published in Iqbal Review, by Iqbal Academy Hyderabad, Nov 1998. Posted on July […]

Allama Iqbal and Umar Qazi: Two lovers of the Holy Prophet

By Jaihoon, published in Iqbal Review, by Iqbal Academy Hyderabad, Apr 1998. Posted on June 06, 2007
(The author is Chief Editor of Jaihoon.com, a non-profitable initiative delivering innovative and thought-provoking perspectives. He writes frequently on mystic themes and contemporary issues. He lives in the Middle East with his parents, wife and son and has authored […]

Vacation 2007 (July)- DAY V

July 27
Friday. On the way to the congregational prayer, I met Haris hudawi, a PhD student of Hamdard University, Delhi. Brilliant and dedicated, he was a true seeker of knowledge. Slightly younger than me, he was still unmarried. After prayer, I moved out quickly. But Nature willed otherwise. It was raining heavy. All the believers […]

Kerala Trip (july 07) DAY I

Pre - DAY I
July 22, 2007
Since an unexpected trip, excessive shopping was out of question. Nevertheless I did drop by Duty Free and bought some sweets and juice drinks. Majority of the customers had heavy baskets with heavy alcoholic drinks. My fellow Malayalaee travelers truly displayed their drunkard nature. They were nevertheless ‘advised’ by the […]

Nizamudheen! Like you had I been!

- Jaihoon
As I turned the pages on the life of Sage of Delhi
His high station

Monkey’s day out

Since the advent of Darwin’s theory of evolution, there has been an increased interest in the ‘monkey’ family. They are widely used as pets, circus performers or in psychological tests. According to the theory of evolution, monkey family, is the closest to man in the hierarchy. This tailed creature is the immediate predecessor to the ‘tail-less creature’. Scientists have found both relatively close to each other in terms of intelligence and body movements. In body shape also there are similarities.

Iqbal: The Interpreter of Truth

No one knew that after the late Ghalib, some one would rise in India who would again inspire Urdu poetry with a new spirit and through whom the matchless imagination and the rare imagery of Ghalib would be created anew and would lead to the glorification of the Urdu literature. However, Urdu was fortunate in getting a poet of Iqbal’s caliber, the superiority of whose literary elegance has impressed the Urdu knowing people of the whole of India and whose reputation has spread to Iran, Asia Minor and even to Europe.