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Imam of Eyup Sultan Mosque, Hasan Tok, right, and Imam Metin Cakar, left, hold a prayer for coronavirus in Istanbul. After the fifth and final call to prayer of the day in Muslim T...

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Muslims offer Friday prayers inside their house during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, in Chikmagalur.

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Police use a drone to keep a vigil on the area as people who attended Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West walk to board a bus for the LNJP Hospital for screening and C...

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People who came for ‘Jamat’, a religious gathering at Nizamuddin Mosque, being taken to LNJP hospital for COVID-19 test, after several people showed symptoms of coronavirus, du...

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Members of Muslim community distribute leaflets, containing information how to prevent the spread of coronavirus, after offering Friday prayers at Nakhoda mosque, in Kolkata,

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Muslims offer Friday prayers on a road infront of Nakhoda mosque amid growing scare of coronavirus pandemic, in Kolkata.

PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra
Union Home Minister Amit Shah meets a delegation led by Syed Naseruddin Chishty, Founder Chairman of All India Sufi Sajjadanashin Council, in New Delhi.

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Muslims pray at Istiqlal mosque without the rugs in Jakarta, Indonesia. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus.

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Members of the Raza Academy during a prayer meet in the wake of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak outside Khatri Masjid in Mumbai.

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Muslims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Few worshippers were allowed to enter after dawn prayers t...

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Muslims shout slogans during a rally outside the Indian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hundreds of Muslims staged the rally calling for an end to alleged violence and discriminatio...

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Muslims gather during a rally outside the Indian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hundreds of Muslims staged the rally calling for an end to alleged violence and discrimination again...

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A Saudi policeman stands guard in front of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's Deputy Health Minister ...

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Devotees get showered with water at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti during the 808th Urs festival, in Ajmer.

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A Muslim prays from a hotel overlooking the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's Deputy Healt...

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A bird's eye view shows temporary shelters, set up for devotees thronging to celebrate the 808th anniversary of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, being commemorated with the annual Urs fes...

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People offer Friday prayers on the rooftop of a mosque, which was burnt by rioters in Tuesday's violence over new citizenship law, at Brijpuri area of northeast Delhi. The death to...

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A model displays a creation by Lia Dahlia during the Muslim Fashion Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Models display Muslim cloth during the Muslim Fashion Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia

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Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as a head priest displays a relic, believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad, during special prayers on the death anniversary of Ab...

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Double Whammy For Indian Muslims: A Failed Secular State And Lack Of Progressive Leadership

Muslims are openly being demonised as the religious and cultural other who must be hated, maligned and thrown out

Apr 08, 2020

| Zakia Soman
Indian Muslims Must Organise Themselves Politically, But Not On Religious Lines

The new political formation of Muslims should eschew religious symbols and slogans, and instead, choose symbols and icons of Indian nationhood

Apr 04, 2020

| Shajahan Madampat
Indian Muslims Cannot Defeat Jinnah, Savarkar By Organising Themselves On Religious Lines

In this rejoinder to Shahjahan Madampat's article published by Outlook, Nissam Syed, a political commentator, argues that if Indian Muslims organise themselves politically on religious lines, that would only strengthen the majoritarian narrative.

Apr 02, 2020

| Nissam Syed
No Proposal For Muslim Reservation Before Maharashtra Govt, Says Uddhav Thackeray

Thackeray's remarks came days after Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik informed the Legislative Council that the state government will provide 5% quota to Muslims in education.

Mar 03, 2020

| PTI
'Infected': Data Shows How China Criminalized Muslim Faith

A newly revealed database exposes in extraordinary detail the main reasons for the detentions of hundreds of people in Karakax County: their religion and their family ties

Feb 18, 2020

| Associated Press (AP)
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Mobile Mosques To Welcome Muslims

Japan has prepared mobile mosques for Muslim visitors to pray in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Feb 08, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
Muslim Women Allowed To Enter, Offer Prayers In Mosques, AIMPLB Tells SC

The AIMPLB reply was filed in response to a PIL of Yasmeen Zuber Ahmad Peerzade who has sought judicial intervention in ensuring entry of Muslim women in mosques.

Jan 30, 2020

| PTI
PM Modi, BJP 'Endangering World's Biggest Democracy': The Economist

The article in The Economist titled “Narendra Modi stokes divisions in the world’s biggest democracy”, says India’s 200m Muslims fear the prime minister is building a Hindu state.

Jan 24, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
India Of 2019 Would Have Shocked Nehru And Gandhi. Not So Much Jinnah

We have learned no lessons from our history even when its teaching has been so clear and precise, writes author-columnist Aakar Patel.

Dec 29, 2019

| Aakar Patel
Citizenship Law Is The Result Of BJP's Majoritarian Instinct But Has It Thought It Through?

India is in the middle of implementing an anti-immigration policy whose subtleties are not properly debated and therefore not fully understood by the majority of Indians and...a majority of parliamentarians.

Dec 15, 2019

| Aakar Patel

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Finally, The Old Fall Guy

The Nizamuddin ‘hot spot’ allows trolls to target Muslims for spreading the virus

Apr 03, 2020

| Puneet Nicholas Yadav
Opinion | Indian Muslims Have Lost Faith In National Institutions And ‘Secularism’

The political situation is so completely pitted against the community that extremist elements wanting to fish in troubled waters will find their task much easier, writes Shahjahan Madampat

Mar 27, 2020

| Shajahan Madampat
Editor's Take | Journalism Wins If Journalists Are Held To Account

This issue of Outlook on the Indian media is testament to our objectivity. Subjecting ourselves to the same scrutiny is only fair, since we constantly scrutinise everyone else, from politicians to police, writes Ruben Banerjee.

Feb 19, 2020

| Ruben Banerjee
Muslims Lead Anti-CAA Protests In Bengal But Hindus Look The Other Way

The Hindu refugees who once voted for the Left Front are not responding to call to mobilise against CAA while BJP plays the Hindu card aggressively

Feb 12, 2020

| Rajat Roy
Complex Case Of Goriya, Moriya, Oxomiya -- Assam Set To Separate Indigenous Muslims From Migrants

The BJP-led Assam government plans a census that will identify the native Muslims—called the Goriya, Moriya, Julha and Deshi. Indigenous Muslims say the census is needed to protect their native identity.

Feb 12, 2020

| Sadiq Naqvi
Why No Shaheen Bagh In Kashmir?

‘Tsunami victims cannot mourn those displaced by a storm.’

Feb 06, 2020

| Naseer Ganai
Leaderless Anti-CAA Protests Underscore Muslim Political Orphanhood

Who ensures the well-being of Muslims in the political space? Who articulates their voice and bargains on their behalf? Why does India's second largest religious demographic go unrepresented?

Feb 06, 2020

| Salik Ahmad
Has The Indian Muslim Found His…And Her…Voice, And A Place Under The Sun, Like Never Before?

Shaheen Bagh becomes a metaphor for a historical moment in Indian politics: a joyous moment of self-discovery for a beleaguered community

Feb 06, 2020

| Salik Ahmad
Two Historic Deeds: The Common Muslim Has Done What Even Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar Or Azad Couldn't

In that spontaneous burst of poetry and speech, a deeper citizenship is forged -- via the many-spangled ethos of Indian Islam. This is remarkable and without precedent, writes Columbia Professor of Philosophy Akeel Bilgrami.

Feb 06, 2020

| Akeel Bilgrami
Indian Muslims: Us, Them And A Common Ground

That Muslims have been rudderless and at the receiving end are well-documented, but what has not been explored enough is the ferment they have experienced and what has emerged out of it.

Feb 05, 2020

| Ruben Banerjee
Amid Mounting Anger Against CAA, A Political Alternative Is Taking Shape In Assam

The CAA has opened an old wound in Assam where the people who identify themselves as indigenous have been demanding deportation of all “illegal immigrants”, irrespective of religion.

Jan 15, 2020

| Sadiq Naqvi
Shards Of A Broken Dream

Once repression and injustice drove Muslims towards the State. This couldn’t last, of course, with the ruling system, in every avatar, punishing Muslims for being Muslim.

Dec 25, 2019

| Omair Ahmad