Tag Archive for Arabic language

The ulama and the rights of women

If woman is just an appendage and a ward of men, then she cannot be held accountable for her sins as a fully realized human being and thus not subject to divine judgment In my textual encounters, and now sadly…

When Gen. Zia imposed Arabic

The introduction of Arabic as a second language in Pakistani schools concretized Pakistani identity as inherently Islamic and restructured our desires in Islamist terms. The role of national languages in defining and articulating national identities is a hackneyed subject, but,…