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Talk Like TED

Talk Like TED

31 August 2024 | Adam Sahin | Issue 161 (Sep - Oct 2024)

In a world where ideas hold the power to transform lives, Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo becomes the guiding light for those who aspire to captivate…

The Case for Heaven

The Case for Heaven

31 December 2023 | Adam Sahin | Issue 157 (Jan - Feb 2024)

The question of what happens after we die is one that has been pondered by humans for centuries. Is there an afterlife? If so, what is it like? These…

Hearts and Minds: Hizmet Schools and Interethnic Relations

Hearts and Minds: Hizmet Schools and Interethnic Relations

31 December 2023 | Engin Yigit | Issue 157 (Jan - Feb 2024)

Authored by Dr. Vincent N. Parrillo and Dr. Maboud Ansari, two American scholars specializing in sociology, Hearts and Minds: Hizmet Schools and Inte…

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

31 August 2023 | Adam Sahin | Issue 155 (Sep - Oct 2023)

“Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” is a book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that explores the potential impact of artificial intelligence (…

Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

30 June 2023 | Engin Yigit | Issue 154 (Jul - Aug 2023)

I follow closely and with great interest what Western thinkers write and think about the Hizmet Movement, how they evaluate the current conditions af…

You Are the Placebo

You Are the Placebo

30 April 2023 | Adam Sahin | Issue 153 (May - Jun 2023)

Can our thoughts and beliefs have a powerful effect on our health and well-being? Dr. Joe Dispenza, a chiropractor and neuroscientist, explores how t…

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology

31 October 2022 | Albert Frolov | Issue 150 (Nov - Dec 2022)

The liberating document of Vatican Council II, Nostra Aetate, stirred up an enormous interest in interfaith inquiry. One of the distinctive modern Ca…

Reflections on “The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View”

Reflections on “The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View”

01 May 2021 | Felix Kaiza | Issue 141 (May - Jun 2021)

I have read numerous books and written reviews of some, but The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View gave me a special reflection treat thanks to t…

8 Shared Values of Science and Faith

8 Shared Values of Science and Faith

01 March 2021 | Cemal Ozgur | Issue 140 (Mar - Apr 2021)

Book Review Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear By Elaine Howard Ecklund 978-1587434365 Brazos Pre…

Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership

31 December 2020 | Gurkan Polat | Issue 139 (Jan - Feb 2021)

The leader of a people is the one who serves them. That is the essence of leadership, serving a group or community first, rather than focusing on lea…

The Meeting Point of Traditional Islamic Literature and Psychotherapy

The Meeting Point of Traditional Islamic Literature and Psychotherapy

01 November 2020 | Reyhane Daglar | Issue 138 (Nov - Dec 2020)

Muslim psychologists and psychiatrists recently published an eye-opening book titled Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care. I ha…

Atheism or Theism: The Never-Ending Debate

Atheism or Theism: The Never-Ending Debate

01 July 2019 | Omer Kuru | Issue 130 (July - Aug 2019)

Atheism or Theism: The Perspective of Said Nursi, Wipf & Stocks By Hakan Gok 2018 9781532646799 The existence of God has been long debated in ph…

Ilm Ethos and Convivencia

Ilm Ethos and Convivencia

28 February 2019 | Behzad Fatmi | Issue 128 (Mar - Apr 2019)

Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity explores the mighty continent of Europe by an academic whose origins lie in the Third World. Pro…

Nature and Environment in Contemporary Religious Contexts

Nature and Environment in Contemporary Religious Contexts

06 January 2019 | Justin Pahl | Issue 126 (Nov - Dec 2018)

It’s no secret – or at least it shouldn’t be – that climate change is one of the most important issues of our time. Very recently, a report came out…

Surrendering to God: Understanding Islam in the Modern Age

26 December 2018 | Dr. Rayna Flye | Issue 93 (May - June 2013)

Surrendering to God: Understanding Islam in the Modern Age Eren Tatari Tughra Publications, 2012 In this post-9/11 world, the word "Muslim" conjures…

A Global Democratization Formula

A Global Democratization Formula

15 September 2018 | Felix Kaiza | Issue 124 (July - Aug 2018)

One morning, an office friend gets my attention and asks, “Have I (ever) given you this book?” The face on the well-designed cover is familiar. It i…

Finding Faith in Difficult Times: Ten thinkers on the writings of Said Nursi

Finding Faith in Difficult Times: Ten thinkers on the writings of Said Nursi

12 September 2018 | Justin Pahl | Issue 124 (July - Aug 2018)

Many western readers are unfamiliar with Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, an Islamic scholar who wrote mostly in the first half of the twentieth century. Tho…

Jesus & Muhammad: Commonalities of Two Great Religions

31 December 2017 | Lawrence Brazier | Issue 121 (January - February 2018)

A pleasing coincidence of mutual thought has occurred because some years ago your correspondent was asked why he had not embraced Islam. My reply was…

Early Islamic Culinary Art

31 August 2017 | Lawrence Brazier | Issue 119 (September - October 2017)

How do we alleviate the harshness of our daily routine? One may contend that the true purpose of art is to offer readers, viewers, and listeners the…

Take Up the Pen, Not the Sword

30 June 2017 | Justin Pahl | Issue 118 (July - August 2017)

Bradley Steffens’ fine work of historical fiction, “The Prisoner of Al-Hakim,” begins quietly, with two friends sitting in a study, talking about mat…

Peace and Dialogue in a Plural Society

31 December 2016 | Justin Pahl | Issue 115 (January-February 2017)

It is a difficult global moment for the Hizmet movement, the civil service group inspired by the ideas of Fethullah Gülen. Targeted in a far reachi…

Experiencing Awe at the Wonder of Existence

31 August 2016 | Justin Pahl | Issue 113 (September - October 2016)

A lot of people think religion and science are incompatible. Advances in technology have led famed atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitc…

Turkey’s Path to Democratization: Barriers, Actors, Outcomes

28 February 2015 | Muhammed Cetin | Issue 104 (March - April 2015)

A rich cultural melting pot and a bridge between East and West, Turkey’s emerging democracy faces challenges and uncertainty in the years ahead…

The Grand Mosque of Paris

31 December 2014 | Rafiq Ebrahim | Issue 103 (January - February 2015)

In these days, when tensions - expressed or unexpressed - are running high between Muslim and Jewish communities, The Grand Mosque of Paris comes as…

The 99 Names Project

31 December 2014 | Andrew Kosorok | Issue 103 (January - February 2015)

Fourteen years ago, two dozen people changed, in the blink of an eye, how 300 million people view 1.37 billion other people. Of course, we are talkin…

Revisiting Psychokinesis: Time, Ether, and Kozyrev

31 October 2014 | Abdullah Aymaz | Issue 102 (November - December 2014)

For many of us ordinary people, time is nothing more than how long we spend at work, at the gym, or the hour at which we come home to meet our famili…

Cultural Considerations in Education

31 August 2014 | Alptekin Kavi | Issue 101 (September - October 2014)

It is essential for people who work internationally or in multicultural settings to familiarize themselves with implications of cultural difference…

How the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind

31 August 2014 | D. Omer Guney | Issue 101 (September - October 2014)

Antony Flew, who once claimed to be one of the world's leading atheists, chose to believe in God before he passed away in 2010. In our article, we br…

A Conversation Starter

31 August 2013 | Justin Pahl | Issue 95 (September - October 2013)

The question of dialogues between different faiths and cultures is one of the most important questions of our fractured age. How can we reconcile so…

An Adoring Journey through the Wisdom of Words

28 February 2013 | Mohammad Aleem | Issue 92 (March - April 2013)

After months of rigorous labor and hard work, I have recently finished translating the book, The Messenger of God: Muhammad – An Analysis of the Prop…

Translating the Qur'an into Action

31 August 2012 | Huseyin Bingul | Issue 89 (September - October 2012)

Reflections on the Qur'an: Commentaries on Selected Verses M. Fethullah Gülen ISBN 9781597842761 NJ: Tughra Books An average English reader is often…

The Butterfly Mosque: Building a Bridge

30 June 2012 | Jessica Danielle Phillips | Issue 88 (July - August 2012)

G. Willow Wilson openly states in her work, The Butterfly Mosque, "When videos of angry men in beards flooded the airwaves, claiming their religion w…

Speech and Power of Expression

31 December 2011 | Ayse Meva Nur | Issue 85 (January - February 2012)

Speech and the Power of Expression: On Language, Aesthetics, and Belief Fethullah Gulen Translated by Korkut Altay 9781597842297 Tughra Books, 201…

Who Speaks for Islam?

31 December 2011 | Mirkena Ozer | Issue 85 (January - February 2012)

"Who Speaks for Islam? What Do 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think?" John L. Esposito, Dalia Mogahed 978-1595620170 Gallup Press, 2008 To date, many…

Prayer and Healing in Islam

31 August 2011 | Mahshid Turner | Issue 83 (September - October 2011)

Title: Prayer and Healing in Islam Author: Salih Yucel Tughra Books 2010 978-1-59784-242-6 In the past few decades many studies and articles on the…

Civic Service Without Borders

30 June 2011 | Anwar Alam | Issue 82 (July - August 2011)

The Gulen Movement: Civic Service without Borders Muhammed Çetin New York: Blue Dome Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-935295-08-2 Hardcover, US$ 18.95 400 pag…

Faith, Theology and Service in Peacebuilding

31 December 2010 | Stanley Ridge | Issue 79 (January - February 2011)

Fethullah Gulen’s work and thinking starts and ends in faith. In a world that commonly extends conflict by speaking of religion either in stereotyped…

Islamic Science and Making of the European Renaissance

31 December 2010 | Nuh Aydin | Issue 79 (January - February 2011)

George Saliba is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at Columbia University in New York, USA. He is an expert on the history of science, especi…

In the land of Yooks and Zooks

30 June 2010 | Mirkena Ozer | Issue 76 (July - August 2010)

What you are about to read is a review of a children’s book which had been banned from the shelves of the U.S. libraries during Cold War years. It op…

When Your Heart Speaks, Take Good Notes

30 April 2010 | Alice Bolton | Issue 75 (May - June 2010)

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 2006, Penguin Books “The first…

Tales from Rumi: Rediscovering a World Classic

31 December 2009 | Huseyin Bingul | Issue 73 (January - February 2010)

Tales from Rumi Edited by Ali Fuat Bilkan Translated by Jeannette Squires Okur 9781597841245 Tughra Books, 2008 There are books that I have always k…

Schooling Islam

31 October 2009 | Jeannette Okur | Issue 72 (November - December 2009)

Moroccan preschoolers acquiring the basics of reading, writing and Qur’an memorization in state-funded kuttabs… Turkish high school students meeting…

Do We Worship the Same God? Comparing the Bible and the Qur'an

30 April 2009 | Ihsan Orhan | Issue 69 (May - June 2009)

In spring 2008 I was asked to accompany a group of people from the United States during their stay in Istanbul. I was told that this group was workin…

Unity, Diversity, and Dialogue: A Jewish Perspective

28 February 2009 | Turan Kayaoglu | Issue 68 (March - April 2009)

While the appeal of the “dialogue of civilizations” is on the rise, its sources, functions, and consequence cause controversy within and between fait…

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

31 October 2008 | Korkut Altay | Issue 66 (November - December 2008)

When Karen Armstrong was asked to make a wish as one of the 2008 TED prize winners, she wished for a Charter for Compassion to be crafted by a group…

Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality

31 August 2008 | Valeria Kolos | Issue 65 (September - October 2008)

Asli Sancar, born and raised in the United States of America, has been living in Istanbul for over twenty years. For more than half of this period sh…

Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist

30 April 2008 | Ertan Salik | Issue 63 (May - June 2008)

Bradley Steffens is the author of twenty-seven nonfiction books for children and young adults. Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist is one of his recent b…

The Qur'an: A Biography

31 December 2007 | Kaan Kerem | Issue 61 (January - February 2008)

The Qur’an: A Biography. Such a title would normally suggest a book that deals with the history of the revelation of Qur’anic verses. However, Bruce…

On the Messenger of God

31 December 2005 | Vitaliy Sheremet | Issue 53 (January - March 2006)

This introduction by me as a professor of Oriental studies might be seen as an incentive to attract attention, but I hope that the reader will welcom…

The Statue of Our Souls: Revival in Islamic Thought and Activism

30 June 2005 | Ruth Woodhall | Issue 51 (July - September 2005)

Those who have followed Gulen’s world of ideas closely will see that what he wrote or preached 15-20 years ago and the ideas he puts forward today ar…

Terror and Suicide Attacks: An Islamic Perspective

31 March 2005 | Oleg L. Kuznestov | Issue 50 (April - June 2005)

Frankly, I was happy to accept the request to prepare a foreword for the readers of the present collection of articles, Terror and Suicide Attacks: A…

Fundamentals of Rumi's Thought: A Mevlevi Sufi Perspective

31 December 2004 | Nuri Delen | Issue 49 (January - March 2005)

There are numerous translations of Rumi’s poetry into English, but there was still a need for a book on Rumi’s life and personal character in English…

Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes and Hero-Worship and Heroic in History

30 September 2004 | Nuri Delen | Issue 48 (October - December 2004)

Carlyle was Scottish and lived in England, but he had close relations with the “New World” and had readers in the United States. He had a lifelong fr…

Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance

30 June 2004 | Thomas Michel | Issue 47 (July - September 2004)

Author: M. Fethullah Gulen / ISBN: 1-932099-68-9 Price: US$ 14.95 / Publisher: The Light, Inc., New Jersey www.thelightpublishing.com The need for d…

Turkish Islam and Secular State: The Gulen Movement

31 March 2004 | Etga Ugur | Issue 46 (April - June 2004)

The public role of religion is a source of controversy in almost every corner of the world in the contemporary age. The headscarf issue in France and…

Pearls of Wisdom

31 December 2003 | Michael Starzinski | Issue 45 (January - March 2004)

This book is a compilation of some of the wise sayings of M. Fethullah Gulen, each of which is a criterion or pearl of wisdom This work by M. Fethul…

Islam at the Crossroads

30 September 2003 | The Fountain | Issue 44 (October - December 2003)

On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Ibrahim Abu-Rabi) During the nineteenth century, Turkey underwent an unprecedented process of m…

Living in the Shade of Islam

30 June 2003 | Jay Willoughby | Issue 43 (July - September 2003)

Ismail Buyukcelebi The Fountain, 2003, Paper Back, 422 pages, ISBN 1-932099-21-2 At a time when there is a vast interest in acquiring an accurate kn…

Interfaith Dialog and Peacebuilding

31 March 2003 | Jay Willoughby | Issue 42 (April - June 2003)

David R. Smock (Editor). Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding. (United States Institute of Peace Press: 2002) 150 pages, ISBN 1-929223-35-8. In ou…

A New Religious America

31 December 2002 | Mary Reveal | Issue 41 (January - March 2003)

Diana L. Eck. Diana Eck, leader of Harvard University's Pluralism Project, introduces readers to America's new religious landscape of mosques, templ…

Essentials of the Islamic Faith

31 December 2002 | Jay Willoughby | Issue 41 (January - March 2003)

by M. Fethullah Gulen The author, one of Turkeys most respected Islamic scholars, discusses Islams core beliefs. After giving brief summaries of tr…

Kingdom of Children

30 September 2002 | Gulcin Aydin | Issue 40 (October - December 2002)

Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement Although, there is a lack of theoretical and philosophical background to understand the homesc…

Forgive for Good

30 June 2002 | Jay Willoughby | Issue 39 (July - September 2002)

A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness But you don't know what she did to me! Why didn't he remember our anniversary? Why weren't my parents…

Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence

31 December 2001 | Jay Willoughby | Issue 37 (January - March 2002)

Bruce B. Lawrence According to the author, Islams response to modernity has passed through three stages: revivalism, reform (including nationalism)…

Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Marcos

30 September 2001 | Jay Willoughby | Issue 36 (October - December 2001)

On January 1, 1994, the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) begins, a new revolution unfolds. There are no calls to overthrow th…

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

30 June 2001 | Yasemin Acikel | Issue 35 (July - September 2001)

Why and how civilizations rise and fall is a hard question to answer. To do so, one must understand the civilization and the time in which it began…

The Battle for God

31 December 2000 | Yasemin Acikel | Issue 33 (January - March 2001)

ABSTRACT: Armstrong explores the fundamentalist movements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the 1500s to the early 1990s. Not a day goes by w…

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

30 September 2000 | Ilhan Kaya | Issue 32 (October - December 2000)

Arjun Appadurai Abstract: Appadurai's work offers a very critical and deep analysis of modernity and globalization. He believes that no single theor…

Travel to Your Heart

30 June 2000 | Abdulaziz Sachedina | Issue 31 (July - September 2000)

Modern men and women are in search of meaningful existence as they encounter materialist culture, which consumes their inner peace and sense of whole…

The Seven Habits of Higly Effective People:Restoring the Character Ethic

31 March 1996 | The Fountain | Issue 14 (April - June 1996)

Effectiveness and efficiency have long been two of the more popular words used in Western business literature to impress an audience and gain an inte…

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

31 December 1995 | The Fountain | Issue 13 (January - March 1996)

Any large natural history museum in any Western city that has one must have an exhibit of man’s supposed descent from ape-like ancestors. And every b…

Are We Alone?

30 September 1995 | M. A. Rahim | Issue 12 (October - December 1995)

Implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life Project Phoenix, launched by NASA in 1992, is an effort to pick up artificial radio signals f…

Subverting Islam: The Role Of Orientalist Centres

03 January 1995 | M. A. Rahim | Issue 10 (April - June 1995)

This is a forceful polemic alerting the Muslim community to a present danger. The feeling of danger, the description of it, the attitude towards it…

Questions: A Key to Knowledge

09 January 1994 | A. Fredericks | Issue 8 (October - December 1994)

Knowledge is a treasury, the key to which is the question. The vast treasury of Islamic knowledge remains unchanged, but, from time to time different…