August 2012 – The Pen Magazine

What the Arab Spring Teaches Us

Yusuf Kara31/08/201214/10/2014

Islamic World is going through a relatively difficult and erratic period for the last couple of years as with the Arab Spring in the Middle East compared to the time...

EDITOR Issue 15 SOCIETY

Unity and Consultation

A.Cihangir İşbilir29/08/201205/11/2015

“Hold fast to God’s rope all together, and split not into factions” (Āl ‘Imran 3/103) The relationship of believers one to the other is like that of the bricks of...

HISTORY&CULTURE ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 15

Consolidating the Consultation Culture and Civil Societies

Metin Ucar15/08/201221/11/2016

Consultation and counsel seem to offer possible solutions for certain monolithic and authoritarian leanings in the Islamic world. The initiatives to organize mechanisms to provide such consultation within ummah should...

Issue 15 OPINION

Political and Economic Integration: the fruits of Islamic unity

The Pen15/08/201214/10/2014

By Mohd Yunus Aminuddin* Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi`s thoughts and commentary on Islamic unity in relation to political and economic integration provides us with a new vision about the future,...

HUMAN RELATIONS

Racism

Muhlis Körpe06/08/201209/07/2013

Nationalism, and its extreme version racism, has fed many conflicts in the history of the world. These illnesses, which are now aggravated problems amongst the world’s Muslims, are capable of...