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ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 5

The Odd One Out Community in the USA; Muslims

Ahmet C. Gülenay11/03/201021/11/2016

No doubt, the life became harder for Muslims after 9/11. Meanwhile, the raising conspiracy theories about it (the very well known one is coded with the term “Inside Job”) and...

An Abortive Initiation: A Necessary Engagement

Salahaddin Özel11/03/201021/11/2016

After the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York city, the radical posture adopted by American administrators towards the Muslim world was the beginning of a too tiresome,...

Issue 5 PORTRAITS

When a Sun Set Down on Earth

Salahaddin Özel11/03/201030/03/2011

In every catastrophic period in history of Ummah some remarkable figures come about and they heal the injuries and repair the damage. Umar bin Abdul Aziz is one of these...

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...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 5

The American Muslims

Münir Salih11/03/201021/11/2016

In USA where after 9/11 500 thousand Muslims were interrogated by FBI, the Muslims offer thanks to Allah for being saved from the lunatic campaigns experienced under the Bush administration....

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...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 3 OPINION

Kashmir and the Right of Self-Determination

Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, USA14/11/200931/08/2016

The monumental peaceful protests throughout Kashmir, bringing together hundreds of thousands of people from all racial and cultural backgrounds, began as a response to the impotent Indian Government's attempt at...

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...

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.