
From the Archive: Inaugural Editorial on Tradition and Modernity
In this introduction to Sacred Web, the Editor contrasts the outlooks of Tradition and modernity, and outlines the raison d'être of the journal.
In this introduction to Sacred Web, the Editor contrasts the outlooks of Tradition and modernity, and outlines the raison d'être of the journal.
Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come... From time immemorial India has been a land of pilgrims and itinerant renunciates, of scholars deeply versed in the religious tradition, charismatic gurus, hermits and ascetics,...
Inna li’Llahi wa inna i’Llahi raji’un. (From God we have come, and to God we shall return.) (Surah Baqarah, 2:156) On February 4, 2025, when the Murshid and Imam of the Shia Nizari Ismaili Muslims breathed his last, and returned to the Abode of the Real,...