EDUCATION – The Pen Magazine

EDUCATION Issue 34

The worst of forgetting is to forget yourself

İbrahim Karaboğa08/01/202127/01/2021

Does a person forget himself? It's kind of strange to forget yourself, isn't it? Especially nowadays. In a time when individuality and egocentrism are at the forefront, how can someone...

EDUCATION Issue 33

Does a virtuous person self-improve?

The Pen21/09/202025/01/2021

It is very sad that personal development, as it is used today, is limited to everyday work such as success in work, school, and politics. Of course, it is important...

EDUCATION Issue 29

The philosophical core of the educational system must change

Mustafa Topöz24/05/201819/11/2018

Education is the activity of changing the ideas and behaviours of people through teaching. The ideas they are taught first start to change their understanding and then their behaviours follow....

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,...

EDUCATION Issue 26

Combining “positive and Islamic sciences and moral training” in formal education

Yunus Emre Pehlivan19/11/201622/03/2017

Madrasatuz-Zahra was a university project which would combine positive and religious sciences. It aimed to give a powerful education covering the needs of the time, uplifting Muslims in science and...

EDUCATION ISSUE 23

How to Arouse Curiosity of the New Generation?

Hasan Hüseyin Yıldırım17/08/201502/05/2016

Curiosity, which urges children to learn, must be promoted in education. Since the fact that ‘curiosity is the teacher of knowledge and need is the master of advancement’ can not...

EDUCATION Issue 21 Sunnah

Amirs of the People of Paradise: Huffaz of the Qur’an

F.Rufeyde Saftekin05/12/201402/05/2016

Huffaz* are the beloveds of our Prophet who praised them many times. Huffaz are the servants of the Qur’an and the actual manifestations of the kalām (word) of Allah Subhanahu...

EDUCATION Issue 21

Common Mistakes in Child Education

Feyza Bilir24/11/201402/05/2016

We must love our children despite everything and raise them for both this world and the hereafter. In this life of anxieties and troubles, a safe haven and a place...

EDUCATION OPINION

Revitalizing Higher Education in The Muslim World

The Pen22/06/201314/10/2014

All aspects of backwardness in the Ummah's history are the results of distortions in the Ummah's cognitive and psychological makeup, which can be treated only when their true nature is...

EDUCATION INTERVIEW Issue 17

A Risale-i Nur course in Sudan

The Pen08/04/201308/04/2013

The Sudan Turkish Students Association organized a course under the title of “A Personal Development Course with the perspective of Risale-i Nur” in Khartoum University between June 9, 2012 and...

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.