A Vitamin that Could Change Your Life: Folic Acid
To have a beautiful, healthy baby is the dream of all would-be parents. Nevertheless, dreams do not always…
Women
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A Special Blessing: The Story of WIN
There are blessings all around us, of course, but what follows is my account of an unexpected blessing–a…
A Serendipitous November
“Yes, we can,” responded a few hundred thousand people in Chicago to the encouraging and hope-inspiring address of…
Greed
It missed the seventh anniversary of 9/11 by a hair’s breadth, but many will remember 9/15 of 2008…
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…
Modest Dress in Abrahamic Traditions
One of the questions I am most commonly posed in the United States is about the way I…
A Journey of Discovery
I first became interested in Ottoman women in the early 1990s when I read a newly published book…
Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality
Asli Sancar, born and raised in the United States of America, has been living in Istanbul for over…
Adaptation to Conditions
In August when the world’s focus was fixed on the most costly ever Olympic Games in Beijing (estimated…
On the Unscientific Basis of the Crusade of Some Scientists against Religion
The voices as well as popularity of certain anti-religion scientists have increased lately. Such figures as evolutionary biologist…
Muhammad and Jesus Two Great Prophets of God
The relationship between Christianity and Islam throughout history has been often characterized by misunderstanding, rivalry, and frequently hostility.…
Women Confined and Mistreated
Question: Some people claim that in Muslim societies, women are confined to their home and they are oppressed.…
A Personal Pilgrimage
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.”…
Tuberculosis and Pregnancy
THERE IS THE INFLUENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS ON THE COURSE OF PREGNANCY AND CHILD DELIVERY AS WELL AS ON…
Medication, Pregnancy and God’s Will
Pregnancy is a unique condition for women, and childbirth has always been considered to be one of the…