December 2017 – The Pen Magazine

HISTORY&CULTURE Issue 28

Bookbinding

Mustafa Yılmaz25/12/201725/12/2017

Bookbinding dates back to very old times. Before the invention of paper, the texts written on parchment and papyrus were kept as roll in wooden cases or boxes. In order...

HUMAN RELATIONS Issue 28

The effects of social media and technology

Muhammed İsmail Hiçyılmaz25/12/201724/05/2018

No service! One day I was walking to the metro station after my class at the faculty. I intended to read the book I had read that morning while coming...

A Garden of Truths Issue 28

Seven Wonders of the World

The Pen25/12/201726/12/2017

One day a teacher asked his students to write a list of the things which are worth being among the Seven Wonders of the World in their opinion. While taking...

FAMILY Issue 28

Consumption frenzy and the child

The Pen25/12/201719/11/2018

Greed has never revealed itself before as severe a passion as today. Since the human being came into existence, the passion for possessing has not decreased; on the contrary it...

HUMAN RELATIONS Issue 28

Father and son

M. Şevki Yeşilot25/12/201725/12/2017

It was long time ago. We gathered with friends at a blessed night in the neighbourhood. (It could be the night of Qadr or Miraj). After some chat and friendly...

EDITOR

Power and politics

Muhlis Körpe25/12/201706/11/2021

Power must serve the truth “If the principles in the wisdom, the honesty in the administration, the laws in the truth, and the bases in the power are not relied...

Issue 28 Sahabas

It is worth knowing the stars of the sky

İbrahim Sarıtaş25/12/201725/12/2017

“If you had seen the sahabas, you would say ‘Are they insane?’ If they had seen you, they would say ‘Aren’t these Muslims?” This is the way Hasan al-Basri describes...

Issue 28

History & Nation

The Pen25/12/201726/12/2017

A nation which has lost the continuation of its history is doomed to lose everything it has. Like a mental patient whose memories have gone bit by bit, its relation...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 28

How is the honour of the Muslim Nation protected?

Mustafa Topöz25/12/201725/12/2017

Political and Social Analysis in the light of Munazarat (the Debates) Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi expresses that three groups of people are one of the main reasons not only for...

EDUCATION Issue 28

The key to our cultural heritage: Ottoman Turkish

The Pen25/12/201724/05/2018

Ercan Türk | General Director, General Directorate of Secondary Education, The Ministry of National Education of Turkey Language, which is the most important means of people’s communicating with each other,...

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.

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