The Orientalists – Part 2
In Xanadu: A Quest, William Dalrymple’s first book, is a work that amassed critical acclaim from the likes…
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The Orientalists – Part 1
Author’s note: Many of the books and authors mentioned here are well-known. There are dozens more from writers…
Annemarie Schimmel Building Bridges between East and West
This is an article on the life, works, and efforts of Cemile (the Beautiful), as Annemarie Schimmel (d.…
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…
Who Speaks for Islam?
“Who Speaks for Islam? What Do 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think?”John L. Esposito, Dalia Mogahed 978-1595620170 Gallup Press,…
Schooling Islam
Moroccan preschoolers acquiring the basics of reading, writing and Qur’an memorization in state-funded kuttabs… Turkish high school students…
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…
Apocalypse from the Perspective of Engineering
The apocalypse is the end of both humanity and the world. Owing to the significance of this event,…
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…
Editorial (Issue 47)
For years his poetry has been at the top of the bestsellers list. His audience span now covers…
Islam and Globalization
The relationship between Islam and globalization has been open to much interpretation and acrimonious debate. At the crux…
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…
The Battle for God
ABSTRACT: Armstrong explores the fundamentalist movements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the 1500s to the early 1990s.…