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Hammad Khan
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A far cry from Adityanath’s Hindutva, the Nath Yogi tradition has a history of religious pluralism
The movement had resisted the application of fixed religious identities of Hindu or Muslim, scholars have found.
Hammad Khan
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Pass that chillum: Why is pot-smoking so common at Sufi shrines and why is it frowned upon?
Colonialism and modernity turned hashish from a gateway to transcendence into one of degradation.
Hammad Khan
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Pakistan’s attempts to secularise qawwali are unnecessary – it has always been pluralistic
A secular understanding of qawwali is anachronistic to the pre-modern progenitors of the art form.
Hammad Khan
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