The Orientalists – Part 1
Author’s note: Many of the books and authors mentioned here are well-known. There are dozens more from writers…
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15 articles
Can Black Holes Cause an Apocalypse?
The world may not have ended on December 21, 2012, but that does not mean it won’t end…
The Butterfly Mosque: Building a Bridge
G. Willow Wilson openly states in her work, The Butterfly Mosque, “When videos of angry men in beards…
Universality of Diversity
One good thing about having a smart phone is that they have this fascinating application that locates where…
Do We Worship the Same God? Comparing the Bible and the Qur’an
In spring 2008 I was asked to accompany a group of people from the United States during their…
Dialogue in Central Eurasia
Central Eurasia is characterized by historians as one of the most diverse places on the face of the…
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…
Labor Pain
Skyscrapers now stand Where oaks once grew. Power plants displace our cornfields On that lovely land. The breeze…
The Myth of Ottoman Despotism
The concept of Chinese script operated as a kind of a European hallucination. Jacques Derrida1 For over two…
Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes and Hero-Worship and Heroic in History
Carlyle was Scottish and lived in England, but he had close relations with the “New World” and had…
Zheng He the Chinese Admiral
Adopted from http://www.islamfortoday.com Little did the famous Muslim geographer Ibn Battuta know that about 22 years after his…
The Battle for God
ABSTRACT: Armstrong explores the fundamentalist movements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the 1500s to the early 1990s.…
The Secret of Dimensions
The beginning of the verse proclaims that God is the only Deity of the heavens, the earth, and…
Transfer of technology from the Islamic world to the West
INTRODUCTION Technology is the tool of civilization, and for Islamic civilization to have been such a leading force…
Western presentation of the Ottoman Turks
The Turks have never been detached, in Western imagination, from other Islamic nations of the Middle East even…