All of Your Beautiful Names
O Allah I know You say There is no compulsion in religion But I don’t want this freedom…
Society
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Building Social Capital for Development: The Role of Religious Values and Virtues
This paper investigates the benefits that religious values and virtues can bring to bear on building social capital…
The Butterfly Mosque: Building a Bridge
G. Willow Wilson openly states in her work, The Butterfly Mosque, “When videos of angry men in beards…
The Missing Piece: The New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Eight months have passed since the “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central…
Did al-Ghazali Kill the Science in Islam?
It is a widespread belief among orientalists that one of the major factors, if not the single most…
Gifted Education: A Dilemma
The education of gifted individuals has long been ignored, for several reasons. Some have argued that gifted individuals…
Abdyl
His name was Abdyl. Everybody I knew called him Dyli. The only other Dyli in our small town…
Love in Sufi Poetry
The enduring resonance of the poetry of thirteenth-century Islamic poet, Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, extends across cultures and…
Beauty in the Sky
It was a shiny, blue sky when I heard the sound that cut through my head, and nailed…
Captain Bell’s Rescue
“Captain Bell, there’s something burning in the distance…take a look.” “Lieutenant, they’re stranded Vietnamese boat people and there…
The Golden Ones
Overflowing with eternal inspirations In company of al Khadr, plunging into secrets Brilliant young people with countenances of…
Will You Hold My Hand Please?
Anne-Mette Harder is a Danish Nurse. There is one important thing which makes her different from her other…
Story in Progress
Every year, 12 to 25 million people attempt suicide worldwide, and 1 million of them achieve what they…
Abu Bakr: An Epitome of Truthfulness
Arabia … a desert as huge as almost three thousand square kilometers. A desert, but one from which…
Character Education for Academic Achievement
This article explores whether character education has an impact on preventing school violence through the virtues that it…