A.Cihangir İşbilir – The Pen Magazine

EDITOR Issue 20

“Wa’l ‘Asr!”

A.Cihangir İşbilir03/10/201330/04/2014

“Wa’l ‘asr!” Thus begins the 103rd surah of the Qur’an, drawing our attention to time and informing us that all people are in loss. With the exception of a group...

EDITOR Issue 19

Ramadan; a blessed month for spiritual healing

A.Cihangir İşbilir09/07/201303/05/2014

Praises be to Allah that we have reached the blessed month of Ramadan of 1434. The dictionaries say that one meaning of ‘Ramadh’ is the rain of autumn. We will...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 18

The role of civil society in struggling against Islamophobia

A.Cihangir İşbilir03/05/201321/11/2016

Islamic non-governmental organizations should develop projects for enhancing the mechanisms of appropriate promotion and efficient representation in every field and on every topic of Islam in the fight against Islamophobia....

Issue 17

Editor’s Letter for Issue 17

A.Cihangir İşbilir06/02/201330/09/2014

A New Year, a New Breath! On 15th November, we entered the new year of 1434 according to the Hijra calendar. This means that humanity has been addressed by the...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 17 News&Events

It is time to launch a campaign for Syria!

A.Cihangir İşbilir06/12/201221/11/2016

“THE HUMANITARIAN ASPECT OF CRISIS IN SYRIA” CIHANGIR ISBILIR General Coordinator, the Union of Non-governmental Organizations of Islamic World (UNIW) It has been twenty months since the beginning of demands...

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...

ISLAMIC WORLD OPINION

Global Chess in the Middle East

A.Cihangir İşbilir02/07/201221/11/2016

‘Last Oriantalist’ Bernard Lewis, writes in his book “Mideast”, “Gamma is the most favorite game in the Mideast; chess is the preference of the educated.” and Concluding from the...

EDUCATION ISLAMIC WORLD

The Extramural Students in Turkey

A.Cihangir İşbilir21/03/201221/11/2016

As a result of opening its doors to outside much more every year that goes by and its initiatives abroad in every field Turkey has become a centre of attraction...

EDITOR

A Gentle Man and a Prophet

A.Cihangir İşbilir30/12/201114/10/2014

Editor's letter from the January-March 2012 print issue Boundless thanks to Almighty and All-Merciful Allah for granting us the ability to communicate with each other again through the13th issue of...

ISLAMIC WORLD

The Greatest Master of Europe

A.Cihangir İşbilir12/12/201121/11/2016

Andalusia Lessons II I was about to finish A history of Islamic Spain by M. Watt and P. Cachia published by Küre Pub. When I read the article “The Sound...

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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.

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