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FAMILY ISSUE 24

What is holy for families?

Mustafa Topöz24/11/201502/05/2016

What is spoken most in family is its most holy. Family life is the special place where people express themselves in the most comfortable way, and show their true personalities...

FAMILY Issue 20

The Role of the Family in Constructing Society

Dr Cemil Gül16/12/201301/12/2016

The family as a building-block of society seems so fragile nowadays. A society whose families are not based on spiritual values is vulnerable in the face of upcoming crises. Human...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 12 SOCIETY

Family for Social and Economic Security in Morocco

The Pen25/11/201121/11/2016

Prof. Khadija Moufıd The Concept of the Family The definition of the family that we adhere to is the one of which the concept was unanimously adopted at the conference...

FAMILY Issue 4

Women and Family in Risala-i Nur

Mehlika Yağmur15/08/201123/03/2012

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi established a spiritual university in Anatolia and in order to enroll at this university he demanded four essences which are impotence (ajz), poorness (faqr), compassion (shafqah), and...

FAMILY Issue 11 SOCIETY

The Family Structure in the Balkans

The Pen15/08/201103/06/2014

Muslims of the Balkans The topic of this article is Muslim family in the Balkans with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the purposes of this article the term...

FAMILY Issue 11 SOCIETY

Muslim Family in North Caucasus

The Pen15/08/201124/06/2014

The North Caucasus is a very specific region of Russia. For almost twenty years there has been going on a so-called anti-terrorist operation, as a result, the republic of Chechnya...

FAMILY Issue 11

American Muslim Family: Perception, Challenges and Solutions

Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, USA15/08/201124/06/2014

In this article, I will present a summary description of the ‘American Muslim Family Structure’, its evaluation, examination and re-examination. Because all indications are that the family structure is weakening,...

FAMILY ISLAMIC WORLD News&Events SOCIETY

The UNIW Holds International Family Conference in Indonesia

The Pen08/05/201105/11/2015

UNIW held International Family Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. 150 NGOs representatives, scholars, academicians and bureaucrats from 15 countries participated in the conference. The theme of the conference was ‘Family Issues in...

Hereafter ONLINE ARTICLES

She is Mine…

Feride Karahan17/09/201001/04/2011

“...Give glad tidings to the steadfast, (Surah Baqara; 155) Who say, when a misfortune strikes them: ‘Lo! we are Allah's and lo! unto Him we are returning.’” (Surah Baqara; 156)...

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 is published biannually. Every print issue of The Pen covers and sheds 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. The Pen 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.