A Communitarian Imperative: Fethullah Gulen’s Model of Modern Turkey
If there has been one great political lesson the twentieth century has taught us, surely it is the…
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The Disconnection between Philosophy and Qur’anic Wisdom
Abstract, rational inquiry does not permit a combination between philosophy and religious wisdom1 and rules that such is…
The Essence of Time
St Augustine’s confession expresses the situation most people experience after contemplating the nature of time. Time has puzzled…
The Acknowledgment of God: The Only Cure to Our Spiritual Poverty
One of the main causes of today’s global disorder is the absence of justice and the rise in…
Fields of Certainty as a Unifying Paradigm for Science and Religion
A superficial understanding of science and religion perceives these two fields as being disciplines of different realms. Such…
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…
Islamic Gardens: Growing Cosmological Ideals
If a random group of people were asked about their concept of heaven, it is likely that a…
Essentials of the Islamic Faith
by M. Fethullah Gulen The author, one of Turkeys most respected Islamic scholars, discusses Islams core beliefs. After…
On Intelligence, Effort, and Success
This article discusses the sources of differences on intelligence and their effects on desirable outcomes in people’s lives.…
Materialistic-Positivistic Concepts Of Religion
If there is something in the world that has long been subjected to the worst kind of misunderstanding,…
Causality and the Qur’anic world-view
The universe has been made in the form of a book, intelligible, so as to make known its…
Editorial
The Fountain, as a voice of faith and consciousness of duty, of hope and resolution, is appearing on…