A Neglected Value in The 21st Century: NEIGHBORLINESS
Neighborhood and neighborliness is an important social value that is often neglected in this century. Just as in…
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Is There an Islamic Code of Conduct Concerning Way of Dressing
There are no formal rules in Islam concerned with the way one wears one’s hair, the style of…
Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance
Author: M. Fethullah Gulen / ISBN: 1-932099-68-9Price: US$ 14.95 / Publisher: The Light, Inc., New Jerseywww.thelightpublishing.com The need…
Understanding Prophet Muhammad Beyond the Stereotypes
“None of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”W. Montgomery Watt…
A Nursi Reader – Be Kind to Your Parents
In this series of articles, A Nursi Reader, the aim is to present the thoughts of the famous…
Making Meaning with an Islamic Wordview
The role of meaning is of paramount importance in human life (Frankl, 1963). Human beings have a natural…
Pearls of Wisdom
This book is a compilation of some of the wise sayings of M. Fethullah Gulen, each of which…
Purpose of Creation
hy was I created? What am I to do with my life? Why did God send the prophets?…
Toward Tomorrow
The Islamic world continues to squirm in the vicious grasp of error, unable to turn to its own…
Islamic Gardens: Growing Cosmological Ideals
If a random group of people were asked about their concept of heaven, it is likely that a…
Islam and Globalization
The relationship between Islam and globalization has been open to much interpretation and acrimonious debate. At the crux…
Why are there differences between Muslims?
Q: You say that Islam is a religion of unity, but we see differences – sometimes major differences…
Modern Science’s Debt to Islamic Civilization
Introduction The debt that Briffault speaks of is often referred to as though it should be taken for…
For Whom Is the Medieval Era Dark?
In elementary school, we learned about various eras: Prehistoric, Antiquity, Medieval, the Renaissance, and Modernity. But we were…
How does the Qur’an regard “knowledge”?
Q:What are the differences between the Islamic and the modern scientific points of view on knowledge (ilm)? How…