Building Bridges
How can we define The Fountain in a single word? As the editors we have been thinking about…
Issue 61 (January - February 2008)
21 articles
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…
Language and Thought
Language is one of the fundamental dynamics in the composition of a culture. The power of a nation…
Descent from the Ivory Tower
Refugee in a tower of agony Hungry for ceaseless beauty In love with eternity Refugee in a tower…
The Cell Bank of Our Body: Stem Cells
Injuries, illnesses and aging are inevitable parts of our lives. The human body can deal with basic injuries…
The Qur’an: A Biography
The Qur’an: A Biography. Such a title would normally suggest a book that deals with the history of…
Islam and Democracy: A Critical Perspective on a Misconstrued Relationship
Nowadays, there is hardly any topic in the field of political science more interesting than the question of…
The Relationship between Our Prayers and Deeds
What are the ways of internalizing good ethical conduct and high virtues so as to make them a…
Blue Light, Daytime Sleep and the Prophetic Tradition
Sleep is a blessing from God. Humans spend around one third of their lives sleeping. Sleep is essential…
The Nature of the Closeness of God
Is God close to human beings? If so, how close is He? Or is defining Him in terms…
What Fuzzy Logic Lets Us Think
Fuzzy logic is a new systemized model which is just as important as the more familiar classical logic…
Do Not Underestimate Small Things
Who does not want to know the future? Is it not one of our impossible dreams to obtain…
Beware of ”Others”
In My Fair Lady, a satirical movie based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Henry Higgins makes a wager…
Who Wants a Transformer?
He is God, the Creator, the Evolver, the Giver of Forms and Colors. (Hashr 59:24) Halima was making…
Halwat and Uzlat (Privacy And Seclusion)
Literally meaning solitude and living alone, halwat and ‘uzlat (privacy and seclusion) within the context of Sufism denote…