Is There an Islamic Code of Conduct Concerning Way of Dressing
There are no formal rules in Islam concerned with the way one wears one’s hair, the style of…
Islam
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Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance
Author: M. Fethullah Gulen / ISBN: 1-932099-68-9Price: US$ 14.95 / Publisher: The Light, Inc., New Jerseywww.thelightpublishing.com The need…
Understanding Prophet Muhammad Beyond the Stereotypes
“None of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”W. Montgomery Watt…
Turkish Islam and Secular State: The Gulen Movement
The public role of religion is a source of controversy in almost every corner of the world in…
A Brief Overview of Islam
The word ‘Islam’ literally stems from the root ‘s-l-m’ and the words ‘silm’ and ‘salamah’ which mean peace,…
Making Meaning with an Islamic Wordview
The role of meaning is of paramount importance in human life (Frankl, 1963). Human beings have a natural…
The Power of Perspective
Can be restructured and converted into occasions that might work in the favor both of the individual and…
Purpose of Creation
hy was I created? What am I to do with my life? Why did God send the prophets?…
Islam at the Crossroads
On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Ibrahim Abu-Rabi) During the nineteenth century, Turkey underwent an…
The Pride of Humanity in a Scenario
There are movies you watch, movies you live and which make you live, and there are movies condemned…
Toward Tomorrow
The Islamic world continues to squirm in the vicious grasp of error, unable to turn to its own…
Islamic Gardens: Growing Cosmological Ideals
If a random group of people were asked about their concept of heaven, it is likely that a…
Islam and Globalization
The relationship between Islam and globalization has been open to much interpretation and acrimonious debate. At the crux…
Living in the Shade of Islam
Ismail BuyukcelebiThe Fountain, 2003, Paper Back, 422 pages, ISBN 1-932099-21-2 At a time when there is a vast…
For Whom Is the Medieval Era Dark?
In elementary school, we learned about various eras: Prehistoric, Antiquity, Medieval, the Renaissance, and Modernity. But we were…