Posts By Firdous Ahmad Lone
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55FeatureDūr: How Kashmiri houses once wore wooden earrings
For centuries, the image of a traditional Kashmiri house was incomplete without imagining its sloping roof. Historically, one simply could not picture...
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1.3KLanguageFrom Hunder to Kunair: Vanishing old-Kashmiri words preserved in Sheikh ul Alam’s verses
Among the great voices of Kashmiri spiritual literature, Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani, revered as Sheikh ul Alam, the patron saint of Kashmir, stands...
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1.8KLanguageZaal, Marg, Sum, Trag: Old Kashmiri words living in Vakhs of Lal Ded
Lal Ded, the fourteenth-century mystic-poet of Kashmir, known variously as Lalleshwari, Lal Arifa, and Lal Ded, composed her vakhs in a language...
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1.7KLanguageQuran in Kashmiri and beyond: A journey of faith through local languages
For centuries, Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir have recited the Quran in classical Arabic. But understanding every Verse of the divine text...
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2.1KLanguageWhen a language loses its landscape: Handur and shin mani in Kashmiri language
Ask a young person in the Valley today what the Kashmiri word for “glacier” is, and you will likely get a puzzled...
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2.4KLanguageBeneath Sanskrit and Persian: Tracing the forgotten Dardic kinship between Shina and Kashmiri
While the precise origin of the Kashmiri language remains unclear, it is an indisputable and evident fact that, over the centuries, Kashmiri...
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2.6KLanguageThe linguistic world of Gurezi Shina and its strong Kashmiri influence
In Gurez, language does not announce itself as a marker of identity; it simply exists, woven into daily life. Shina is spoken...
