Friends of the Visuvalingams - Yoginder Sikand

<body> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="en-us">I was introduced 7th June 2002 to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.islaminterfaith.org/">Yoginder's Qalandar website</a> for South Asian interfaith dialogue by Aminah Mohammed, whom I had got to know during my passage through Paris in summer 2001. Having eventually chanced upon svAbhinava.org on his own on 3rd Nov. 2003, Yoginder added me to his mailing list of online articles, book reviews, interviews, etc. When I requested permission on 18th June 2004 to post his two-part article on "<a target="_top" href="../../abhinava/YoginderSikand/MuslimRishis-frame.php">The Muslim Rishis of Kashmir</a>" within our online project<i> </i>on<i> Abhinavagupta and the Synthesis of Indian Culture</i>, Yoginder immediately gave me blanket permission to re-publish any of his ongoing pieces, through which we have gotten to know other Muslim intellectuals, such as <a target="_top" href="../../MeccaBenares/AsgharAliEngineer/index.php">Asghar Ali Engineer</a> and <a target="_top" href="../../MeccaBenares/FarishNoor/index.php"> Farish Ahmad-Noor</a>, who now also figure at <i> <a target="_top" href="../../MeccaBenares/index.php">Between Mecca and Benares</a></i>. I finally got to meet Yoginder in Paris on 15th November 2004 after listening and responding informally to his talk on </span> <span class="093173811-26022005"><span class="265143911-26022005">�<a target="_top" href="../../MeccaBenares/YoginderSikand/AsgharAliEngineerIslamicTheology-frame.php">Asghar Ali Engineer: the development of an Islamic theology appropriate to the Indian context</a><span lang="en-us">.</span>�</span></span></font></p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> </body>