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Issue 15 Scholars

Imam Sharani

Feridun SAMIL03/09/201207/04/2015

Imam Sharani was one of the great awliya of Egypt and an imam of Islamic law of the Shafii School. His given name was Abdulwahhab. He was born in 1491...

ONLINE ARTICLES

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...

ISLAMIC WORLD News&Events

Rohingya: The Most Persecuted and Forgotten Muslim Minority

The Pen30/07/201231/08/2016

Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, located in the west of Myanmar, are under oppression since early June and international community is not aware of the real dimensions of the tyranny...

Featured HISTORY&CULTURE HUMAN RELATIONS

Ramadan and the Social Life

The Pen26/07/201201/06/2022

One of the benefits of fasting can be explained as follows: There are people that Allah has created who live in different walks of life. Allah tests some people as...

Health&Halal HUMAN RELATIONS Sunnah

Benefits of Fasting

The Pen25/07/201204/08/2016

There are many benefits of fasting. Some of them are as follows: 1. It reminds us our Lord and that we are His servants. 2. It teaches us to give...

Issue 15 PILLARS OF FAITH Psychology

The Wisdom Behind Calamities

Muhammed Zakir Çetin25/07/201214/10/2014

Disasters are facts of life and they are not meaningless. If we try to read the messages that they convey to us, we may receive the wisdom behind them. وَاتَّقُواْ...

THE PEN MAGAZINE

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.

The Pen Magazine is inspired by the Risale-i Nur Corpus written by Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi who is one of the most effective scholars of the modern age, and who addresses the minds, the hearts, and the souls of people in a convincing manner in his books.