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INTERVIEW Issue 5

The Life of This World is only Play and Amusement

Hamza Berat11/03/201030/03/2011

Would you please introduce yourself briefly? Bismillah wal hamdolilah was-salatu was-salam 'ala rasool Allah. My name is Yusuf, I am 26, I embraced Islam over 8 years ago, when I...

INTERVIEW Issue 4 News&Events

We are one nation!

Feride Karahan30/12/200905/11/2015

Interviews from Youth Gathering When the calendar shows 10th August 2009, the story starts with enormous excitement. The excitement of embracing each other from all over the world, the excitement...

INTERVIEW Issue 4 PROPHET MUHAMMAD Prophets

Our Prophet (PBUH) is the “Best Example”

Ömer Erem30/12/200930/11/2015

Interviews How should we interpret the importance that our Prophet (PBUH) gave to knowledge? The beauty, perfection, wisdom and thoroughness of everything relies on its relation to knowledge. The futility...

INTERVIEW Issue 4

Nursi’s Theological and Spiritual Worldview

Dr. Farid Shahran30/12/200930/03/2011

QURAN AS THE ABSOLUTE SOURCE OF RELIGION One of the fundamental reasons which urged Nursi to expound his ideas in Risale-i Nur is his the sudden realization of the greatness...

INTERVIEW Issue 2

Islamophobia: Challenges and the Way Out

Hamza Berat07/06/200802/04/2011

Chairman of Future Global Network, a network of NGOs based in Kuala Lumpur dedicated to the peaceful co-existence of humanity; actively involved in advocacy NGO by being an Exco of...

INTERVIEW Issue 2

Islamophobia: False Impressions and Genuine Concerns

Hamza Berat07/06/200802/04/2011

AHMAD VON DENFFER Chairman of “Muslime Helfen”, GERMANY THE TERM “PHOBIA”, BORROWED FROM PSYCHOLOGY, in combination with Islam does not adequately describe the phenomena commonly understood as “Islamophobia”. As a...

INTERVIEW Issue 2

Concept of Jihad: Some Reflection

Hamza Berat07/06/200802/04/2011

PROF. DR. ANIS AHMAD Meritorious professor and Vice Chancellor, Riphah International University, PAKISTAN THE TERM “JIHAD” (STRUGGLE) IS USED AROUND 40, times in the Qur’an while “qital” or war is...

INTERVIEW Issue 2

The Attitudes of Major Global Powers Towards Islam and Muslims

Hamza Berat07/06/200802/04/2011

DR. HASSAN ABOU TALEB Assistant Director of Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, EGYPT SOME AMERICAN AND EUROPEANS POLITICIANS AND intellectuals admit this problematic. They found solution in distinguishing...

INTERVIEW Issue 2

Constructing American Islamophobia: The Role of Media and Identity

Hamza Berat07/06/200802/04/2011

ERIK C. NISBET Lecturer at Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA Constructing American Islamophobia: The Role of Media and Identity ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, COSTLY MEDIA CAMPAIGNS THAT increase awareness,...

INTERVIEW Issue 2

Combating Islamophobia: Obligation of Scholars

Hamza Berat07/06/200802/04/2011

DR. IQBAL UNUS Director of The Fairfax Institute, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), UK ONE COULD POSIT THAT THE ORIGINS OF ISLAMOPHOBIA REST IN THE West’s fear that the...

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.