2011 – Page 6 – The Pen Magazine

10 Years After 9/11

A.Cihangir İşbilir12/09/201121/11/2016

9/11 was a turning point both for the Muslim World and the West. Nothing has been the same since then. American madness has not come to an end with Obama,...

ISLAMIC WORLD ONLINE ARTICLES

Fear Inc. Collapsed in Turkey

Yunus Emre Pehlivan12/09/201121/11/2016

…And will collapse in the US, too. A report titled “Fear Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” was published recently by Center for American Progress. The report...

BOOK REVIEW ISLAMIC WORLD ONLINE ARTICLES

Sectarianism in Iraq: Why do they clash?

Salahaddin Özel12/09/201121/11/2016

22-year-old Sunni Iraqi boy facing me was telling that the real perpetrator of the sectarian violence in Iraq were Shias because their clerics were encouraging and invoking them to kill...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF SOCIETY

The Purpose

Feride Karahan05/09/2011

The Purpose of life is what we take for granted most of the time. What is the purpose of life? Is it getting a job or finding the perfect one...

BOOK REVIEW ISLAMIC WORLD

Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

Salahaddin Özel05/09/201121/11/2016

Yemen, your desert is made of sand What did you want from my son? I don’t know your way or your sign I am just missing my son O Yemen...

ONLINE ARTICLES Sunnah WORSHIP

Mind Management

Yunus Emre Pehlivan05/09/2011

It is a common problem for a Muslim that some involuntary thought and doubts come to the mind at the times of performing a good deed, attending the Jumuah Prayer...

ONLINE ARTICLES OPINION

Preserving the presence of mind and ‘language of balance’

A.Cihangir İşbilir01/09/201103/06/2014

‘Securitization’ in international relations theories is a concept describing exactly how to reach through words where the words fail. The term is first coined by Ole Waever and examines how...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Truth, to be told

Muhammed Tahir25/08/201116/04/2014

As I was still a little kid, just after acquiring the ability to read, I started devouring many many books, as they were whole new worlds to be discovered. It...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Thank You For Listening and Reading!

Feride Karahan22/08/201103/05/2014

Nowadays more attention is paid to making people better speakers and writers. Everybody wants to be listened and read. This is a very good thing but there is a question...

ISLAMIC WORLD ONLINE ARTICLES OPINION

End of the Tunnel in Syria…

A.Cihangir İşbilir22/08/201121/11/2016

“Deadlock” is the best word describing the current situation in Syria. Syrians do not hope for help either from Russia with which they’ve made millions of dollars of armament contracts...

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Published since 2007 The Pen is an educational and cultural periodical covering the Islamic faith, worship, the issues of the Islamic world, and the struggle towards the unity of Muslims.

As of 2014 it started to be published biannually. Every print issue of The Pen has covered and shed light into the topics which are of great importance for the believers such as the existence and oneness of Allah (swt), the proofs of the existence of Hereafter, the mission of prophethood, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his way of life (Sunnah), and the reasons behind the creation of man and the test of life.

As of 2022 The Pen started to publish online-only contents.

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