A Reform Rabbi Learns from Muhammad
All Muslims know that the Qur’an often refers to the “people of the book” and their prophets. In…
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Understanding Today’s Schools with Chaos Theory
Today’s schools are more complex systems than the one-room schools of the past. However, most of the beliefs…
Water: The Molecule of Life
The sustenance of all known life-forms relies heavily on water, and almost all living things are mostly composed…
The Souls Besieged by a Life of Transience
Those who perceive the world solely in terms of its transitory face and physical constraints can be seen,…
How Swift Our Minutes Pass!
Great God, how frail a thing is man!How swift his minutes pass!His age contracts within a span;He blooms…
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…
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…
The Qur’an: A Biography
The Qur’an: A Biography. Such a title would normally suggest a book that deals with the history of…
Descent from the Ivory Tower
Refugee in a tower of agony Hungry for ceaseless beauty In love with eternity Refugee in a tower…
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…
The Wonderer
When you travel long enough and become a stranger to every land you step on, you stop having…
Quantum Entanglement: Illusion or Reality?
Science has always influenced philosophy. Trivial and not instantaneous effects of change in scientific thought eventually result in…
The Construction of Intelligence in Terms of Cultural Differences between East and West
As human beings, we live in societies that create their own systems of meanings through the process known…
Citadel of the Self: Incompleteness Theorem
What is consciousness? Is it established in the brain, or distributed throughout the whole body? Is it physical?…
Rainbow
Sky in blue, earth in green, dyes of all shades. Rainbows in all directions across the horizon, Touched…