The writer is Professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
The significance of tragedy of Karbala
The tendency for sweeping statements
Reading Roedad Khan 21 years too late
Thomas Walker Arnold’s impact on scholarship
Divisive, negative and problematic
Reading between sacrifice and tragedy
Pakistani public cannot be denied agency
Religion, modernity and dargah
Is Pakistan’s culture homogeneously identifiable?
A new political synthesis is required
More on Mumtaz Ali
The contribution of Maulvi Mumtaz Ali
Mushtaq Yousufi, the most luminous cultural icon
The tenuous relationship between Nawaz Sharif and ‘invisible forces’
The long-drawn academic battle between Bernard Lewis and Edward Said
Remembering historian Bernard Lewis
The most influential thinker of modern history
The damage done to the academia milieu by disallowing a critical engagement with Marx
A speech about speeches and other things
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s autobiography
