Beware of ”Others”
In My Fair Lady, a satirical movie based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Henry Higgins makes a wager…
Issue 61 (January - February 2008)
21 articles
Who Wants a Transformer?
He is God, the Creator, the Evolver, the Giver of Forms and Colors. (Hashr 59:24) Halima was making…
Halwat and Uzlat (Privacy And Seclusion)
Literally meaning solitude and living alone, halwat and ‘uzlat (privacy and seclusion) within the context of Sufism denote…
Peer Instruction: A Better Way to Learn
Teaching and learning are two common human activities. If we need to name a great difference between humans…
Rainbow
Sky in blue, earth in green, dyes of all shades. Rainbows in all directions across the horizon, Touched…
Citadel of the Self: Incompleteness Theorem
What is consciousness? Is it established in the brain, or distributed throughout the whole body? Is it physical?…
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…
Quantum Entanglement: Illusion or Reality?
Science has always influenced philosophy. Trivial and not instantaneous effects of change in scientific thought eventually result in…
The Wonderer
When you travel long enough and become a stranger to every land you step on, you stop having…
Building Bridges
How can we define The Fountain in a single word? As the editors we have been thinking about…
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…
Language and Thought
Language is one of the fundamental dynamics in the composition of a culture. The power of a nation…
Descent from the Ivory Tower
Refugee in a tower of agony Hungry for ceaseless beauty In love with eternity Refugee in a tower…
The Cell Bank of Our Body: Stem Cells
Injuries, illnesses and aging are inevitable parts of our lives. The human body can deal with basic injuries…
The Qur’an: A Biography
The Qur’an: A Biography. Such a title would normally suggest a book that deals with the history of…