A Journey of Discovery
I first became interested in Ottoman women in the early 1990s when I read a newly published book…
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It’s me, Peter, your intestine!
Peter, maybe now you will snap at me saying, “What are you trying to do? You are nothing…
Soil-Cleaning Plants
Soil has significant functions for securing the maintenance of life on earth. The food and water that plants…
Modest Dress in Abrahamic Traditions
One of the questions I am most commonly posed in the United States is about the way I…
Knocking on Your Door
Open your door as a compliment, make your slave happy, Serve my spirit chants from the tongues of…
Ruminants and Their Contribution to Our Life
And surely in the cattle (feeding on the pastures of the revived earth) there is a lesson for…
The Eighty-Twenty Rule in the Risale-i Nur
The famous Islamic scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) referred to mathematics in various forms in various places in…
From Soap Bubbles to Technology
Children love playing with soap bubbles; they like to blow a circle after dipping a bubble wand into…
Khawf and Khashya (Fear and Reverence)
In Sufism, khawf (fear) denotes abstaining not only from all that is forbidden, but also from deeds from…
Time Management in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
In the preface to his book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Michael…
Can Genes Alone Explain Everything?
Genetics is probably one of the fastest developing contemporary sciences with an incredibly large accumulation of knowledge. This…
Is Redundancy Always Redundant?
Normally, we associate the idea of redundancy with such concepts as wastefulness, uselessness repetition, and superfluity. However, there…
Reevaluating Cholesterol
The message to lower cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease has been widely circulated. However, recent…
Women and the Qur’anic Prescriptions
One of the most sensitive and oft-debated issues with regard to Islam concerns the status and role of…
The Death of the Aral Sea
The Aral crisis is the best example of an ecological problem with serious social and economic consequences, directly…