Painless Love
Love is an innate human trait. To love and to be loved are among the most basic human…
<span>Louima Cunningham</span>
Spiritual Absence and Suicide
My heart misses a beat every time an ambulance pulls up in front of our hospital, tearing the…
How Much Water Should We Drink?
Ancient thinkers thought that existence came from four basic elements: water, earth, fire and air. Today, although we…
Guidelines for Christian-Muslim Dialog
Since 9/11, no one can doubt the urgency of our need to understand the Islamic world. But even…
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…
Why are there differences between Muslims?
Q: You say that Islam is a religion of unity, but we see differences – sometimes major differences…
Reconsidering Islamic Pluralism in the Contemporary World (1)
The subject of religious pluralism can provoke a great deal of controversy. One could consider all religious knowledge…
The Twelfth Word
This Word presents a brief comparison between the Qur’an’s sacred wisdom and human philosophy, a concise summary of…
Modern Science’s Debt to Islamic Civilization
Introduction The debt that Briffault speaks of is often referred to as though it should be taken for…
The Shape of the Universe
The Shape of the Earth Ancient people, considering it very important to determine Earth’shape, derived two important clues…
The Rise of Visual Information
Interpreting many events into visual information has become the dominant way of perceiving and learning in many fields:…
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…
The Building Blocks of Life
The biological structure of living beings is based on chemical compounds formed by carbon elements bounding to other…
How does the Qur’an regard “knowledge”?
Q:What are the differences between the Islamic and the modern scientific points of view on knowledge (ilm)? How…