Spiritual Capital for Social Change
When talking about capital most people think of money, gold, homes, and land. But there is a new…
Society
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When Your Heart Speaks, Take Good Notes
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a TimeBy Greg Mortenson and David…
Inside a Patient’s Room
Hospital chaplains often intersect a person’s life at the time of their most desperate need. An unwed mom…
Renewers
If education is an act of “renewal” in beliefs, ideas, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices, a renewal that…
Surprise Farewell
Death is a guest at our door, uninvited To some it brings bliss, to others perdition Suddenly shows…
Tales from Rumi: Rediscovering a World Classic
Tales from RumiEdited by Ali Fuat BilkanTranslated by Jeannette Squires Okur9781597841245Tughra Books, 2008 There are books that I…
The Flower’s Song
The humble flower swaying free, Bent down in prayer as winds blow by. No glimpse of greed or…
Married to a Turk?!
“Have you lost your mind?!” Professor Lydia cried as soon as I announced that I had been engaged…
An Epic from the Epoch of Qur’an and Epical Deeds
I was on my journey to Hajj. Travelling through the lands of Iraq and Syria, I came across…
The Heart of a Child
Caught in a child’s hand, the seashell becomes treasure, a catalyst of daydreams. Tunes hummed by innocence reach…
Al-Andalus
Maria Rosa Menocal (2002) argues that Al-Andalus (711–1492) was a “utopian-like” society in which Jews and Muslims lived…
Ebru or Water Marbling
After the “Sacred Word” was expressed in writing, it met with the refined taste in art. As a…
Social Reform and Fethullah Gulen: the Cairo Perspective
In Egypt the impression of Turkey in recent times has been shaped by the fantastic goal the soccer…
Schooling Islam
Moroccan preschoolers acquiring the basics of reading, writing and Qur’an memorization in state-funded kuttabs… Turkish high school students…
Honoring Our Parents
Our parents are the people who provide the most care for us in this world. Unfortunately, most of…