Feridun SAMIL – The Pen Magazine

Issue 16 PORTRAITS

Sheikh Shamil, the Eagle of the Caucasus

Feridun SAMIL01/01/201307/04/2015

As a Muslim leader whose country had been exposed to the occupation of a foreign country, Imam Shamil carried out a legendary defence war and protected his country’s honour. Imam...

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...

Issue 13 Scholars

A peak of wisdom and knowledge

Feridun SAMIL12/01/201216/04/2014

A short life story of Imam Shafii, the scholar who ‘filled the earth with knowledge’ Imam Shafii, born in Gaza, Palestine, in 150 AH/ 760 AD was the imam and...

Issue 12 Scholars

Imam Rabbani: The Sun of the 10th Century

Feridun SAMIL25/11/201102/02/2015

Imam Rabbani was born in 1563 (h. 971) in Sirhind, India. He is called as “Mujaddid Alf Thani” for he is the Mujaddid of the second thousand-year. Imam-i Rabbani descends from...

Scholars

The Sultan of the Awliyas

Feridun SAMIL16/06/201114/10/2014

Ghaws Al Azam Abdul Qadir Gilani who was a recipient of the hadith of our Prophet (PBUH) “the scholars of my ummah are like the prophets of Banu Israel” was...

DIVINE BOOKS Issue 8 Qur'an

The Qur’an in the language of the Qur’an

Feridun SAMIL13/04/201122/12/2016

Since the Age of Bliss hundreds of thousands of lovers of the Qur’an have written exegesis, books, poems and essays about the Qur’an so far. All of them have showed ...

Issue 9 Scholars

Hujjat al-Islam Imam Ghazali: The Sun of the Fifth Century

Feridun SAMIL01/02/201107/04/2015

Imam Ghazali, who has been a prominent and legendary scholar champion of Islam, was born in Ghazal town of Tus city of Iran in 1058 (H. 450). His name is...