The 107-storey-tall Princess Tower in Dubai has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest residential building. Measuring 414 metres from base to tip, the tower comprises six basement floors, a ground floor and 100 above-ground residential levels. The tower occupies an area of 37,410 square feet and houses 763 luxury apartments. Dubai already has a Guinness Record in its name for the tallest building in the…
Fresh and crippling US sanctions against Iran seeking to prevent it from being a nuclear weapon-capable state have almost blown the bugle for a new war in the Gulf. Sanctions are least likely to work in the case of Iran when they failed to cow down a much weaker Iraq for over a decade. The support of 401…
Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes. The suit against tobacco companies and the Indonesian government argues that feeble regulation has left children dangerously exposed to the risks of smoking. Indonesia is something of a paradise for both smokers…
There is a general clamour among Indian Muslims that they are lagging behind on the development front. But few people can analyse the reasons properly. Open any Urdu newspaper and you will come up with at least four or five reports about mushaira or shamee- ghazal. International mushairas can be organized by Muslims in a jiffy, but the community does not have even district…
The Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), Istanbul, and the Organisation for Culture and Islamic Relations, Islamic Republic of Iran, will be jointly organising the “Tehran International Congress on the Features, Characteristics and Cultural and Economic Contribution of Arts and Handicrafts” accompanied by an exhibition of Albums, Catalogues and books published in the field of Arts and Handicrafts. The event will take place in Tehran on September 16…
Dear Sir, The article titled “Natural Born Futurist” by Ziauddin Sardar (May 2012 issue) was highly insightful. I am sure that after reading such articles, Muslims will stop living in the past. This article should be given more publicity and I would appreciate if you can inform where I can get the book, “The future of Islamic Civilisation”. Haroon Shaikh, [email protected] Editor replies: The full article…
The latest edition of the best-selling 1001 Inventions book has been published by National Geographic, and will introduce the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization to new audiences in North America and the rest of the world. The previous two editions of the flagship 1001 Inventions publication sold more than 150,000 copies, with Turkish and Arabic versions also proving very popular. Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were…
Muslim families have become very demanding about the looks of a girl or bride that they are looking for their sons. It is quite disheartening that even Islamic Voice is also adding more fuel to the fire. The matrimonial advertisements in your paper all mention “girl should be fair and beautiful.” This is absolutely ridiculous! Fortunately, Muslim girls are empowered today with education and values. A…
Muslims number 2.6 million, much against their own estimates of seven million. American Muslims grew in number over the past decade, outnumbering Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest and part of the South, while most mainline churches lost adherents, according to a census of American religions released recently. The number of adherents of Islam rose to 2.6 million in 2010 from…
Veteran Khushwant Singh has pointed fingers only at Muslims stating that they are always at war. Singh has forgotten the massacre of Sikhs, how lakhs of Sinhalese were killed in Ceylon. The deadly warfare in Latin America, in Vietnam and Japan during the World War may be history, but this is reality and Singh seems to have overlooked it. The non-stop war between different non-Muslim…
