The Arabic script influenced several South Asian languages such as Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, and Malayalam. While ...

KOZHIKODE: Sunni preacher Rahmatullah Qasimi has lashed out at internationally-acclaimed scholar Mahmood Kooria Hudavi for “defaming Islam by portraying Islamic Sharia as patriarchal”.

In an interview with TOI, Dr Kooria, who is currently teaching at Edinburgh University, talks about the dynamic concept of Oceanic Islam, the historical cosmopolitanism of 16th-century Malabar ...