‘MAZMOON’, or essay, is an Arabic word. The Arabic root from which the word ‘mazmoon’ is derived means ‘to contain, comprise or include’. Therefore, the contents or subject matter of a letter or a ...

Many of us can call to mind the confusion when we think of the debate on inshaiyya, which raged for quite some time in 1970s and 1980s. It even spilled over into 1990s. In fact it had become quite ...