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An Attempt of Reinterpretation of Islam for Modern Age

Salahaddin Özel19/10/201112/03/2021

When the Cold War ended, a problem that the Western Bloc needed to handle with left behind: Fighting Muslim groups that were established and used against soviets as proxies during...

EDITOR

Writing from right to left

A.Cihangir İşbilir19/10/201114/10/2014

Italian author Umberto Eco who was born in 1932 says in his book The Confessions of a Young Novelist that he had answered the question “How did you write your...

News&Events

Conference on Halal and Healthy Products

The Pen17/10/201119/10/2011

The 4th International Conference on Halal and Healthy Products was held on October 13-14th 2011, in Istanbul. The organizer of the conference, GIMDES (Association for the Inspection and Certification of Food...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Patience in Three Ways…

Emre Karahan10/10/201124/10/2011

There are times when we feel ourselves weak, helpless and desperate. It happens for a reason. Sometimes our loved ones pass away, sometimes we lose our health. In one way...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Two Sides of Ego… [Ana]

Feride Karahan09/10/201124/10/2011

Egoism literally means excessive concern for oneself with or without exaggerated feelings of self-importance or the doctrine that individual self-interest is actual motive of all conscious action.[1] I don’t know...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Ottoman Turkish

Yunus Emre Pehlivan09/10/201103/06/2014

Many people, including the Turkish, think that Ottoman Turkish is different from today’s Turkish language. The reason behind this is that Ottoman Turkish is written with Arabic letters, which I...

ONLINE ARTICLES

The Life and Belief

Salahaddin Özel03/10/201127/04/2014

Am I suggesting that the life of a nonbeliever must be one of dreary desperation without cause for hope or happiness? Not indeed. I think not only life of nonbelievers...

EDITOR

‘Spring youth’ and the wind

A.Cihangir İşbilir30/09/201124/06/2014

It seems that the use of the phrase ‘Arab spring’ will bring about new ‘spring’ rhetoric. In recent weeks I have written an Scalp advanced Youth worth cialis be mentioned...

Issue 12

The 12th Issue of The Pen

The Pen30/09/201109/02/2015

The Lost Treasure Rediscovered: 1300th Year of Conquest of Spain by Muslims Articles from the 12th Issue - October-December 2011 An historical perspective on Muslim Andalus...

ISLAMIC WORLD ONLINE ARTICLES

A Memory from Afghanistan to Bosnia and What It Makes Us Think

Mehmet CAKMAK29/09/201121/11/2016

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Prof. Ahmet Davutoğlu shared a memory in a speech he made in a symposium: “I went to Afghanistan for an official meeting. After one...

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