Can Genes Alone Explain Everything?
Genetics is probably one of the fastest developing contemporary sciences with an incredibly large accumulation of knowledge. This…
Issue 66 (November - December 2008)
20 articles
Time Management in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
In the preface to his book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Michael…
Khawf and Khashya (Fear and Reverence)
In Sufism, khawf (fear) denotes abstaining not only from all that is forbidden, but also from deeds from…
From Soap Bubbles to Technology
Children love playing with soap bubbles; they like to blow a circle after dipping a bubble wand into…
The Eighty-Twenty Rule in the Risale-i Nur
The famous Islamic scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) referred to mathematics in various forms in various places in…
Ruminants and Their Contribution to Our Life
And surely in the cattle (feeding on the pastures of the revived earth) there is a lesson for…
Knocking on Your Door
Open your door as a compliment, make your slave happy, Serve my spirit chants from the tongues of…
Modest Dress in Abrahamic Traditions
One of the questions I am most commonly posed in the United States is about the way I…
Soil-Cleaning Plants
Soil has significant functions for securing the maintenance of life on earth. The food and water that plants…
Greed
It missed the seventh anniversary of 9/11 by a hair’s breadth, but many will remember 9/15 of 2008…
It’s me, Peter, your intestine!
Peter, maybe now you will snap at me saying, “What are you trying to do? You are nothing…
A Dream Worth The Entire World
Others may think differently; but for me our world is so charming with its exquisite climate, landscape, mountains…
A Journey of Discovery
I first became interested in Ottoman women in the early 1990s when I read a newly published book…
On Hibernation and Bedsores
You would have thought them awake though they were asleep. We caused them to turn over to the…
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
When Karen Armstrong was asked to make a wish as one of the 2008 TED prize winners, she…