islam – The Pen Magazine

Issue 26 PILLARS OF FAITH

Understanding Islam

The Pen19/11/201605/03/2021

“ISIS”, “Al-Qaida”, suicide bombing, “Muslim” intolerance and all the rest of it: anyone with an even elementary knowledge of Islamic learning and culture will know how strange and alien, indeed...

ISLAMIC WORLD Issue 15

The Necessity and Importance of Islamic Unity

İdris Tüzün13/07/201221/11/2016

All historical experiences and also the holy sources of Islam urge us to establish unity and develop close ties and improve cooperation amongst ourselves as Muslims. The Current Situation of...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

Islam, Reform and Reformists

A. Said GUL23/03/201221/11/2016

In the last century, with the increase in the reformist and modernist trends in the Islamic world, imitating of the western world raised. The followers of these trends started increasingly...

ISLAMIC WORLD ONLINE ARTICLES

Despotism in the Middle East: A View from Bernard Lewis

Salahaddin Özel17/02/201221/11/2016

The question as to whether Islam and democracy are compatible with each other has been widely debated. In these investigations Islam is always considered as the agent that needs to...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Raise your Head, You are not Alone!

Feride Karahan19/01/201221/11/2016

She was sitting in her armchair looking through the window. Actually, she was contemplating her life. She was trying to pinpoint exactly where all this frustration started in her life....

ONLINE ARTICLES

Are you afraid of Death?

Emre Karahan08/12/201119/12/2011

This question comes to everybody. No matter who we are or how we live or in which position we act the reality of death never changes. In a certain time...

Issue 11 SCIENCE

Science and Islam

The Pen15/08/201130/04/2014

1. Introduction Most learned people regard science as a reliable way of obtaining knowledge about the world and life because science requires healthy questioning and testing of ideas. Yet many...

Issue 11

ISLAM IS LIKE THE SUN. It cannot be extinguished by a blow!

Salahaddin Özel15/08/201111/01/2017

4. International Bediuzzaman and Risale-i Nur Symposium was held 4. International Bediuzzaman and Said Nursi Symposium, organized by Hayrat Foundation was held in Bursa Merinos Ataturk Congress and Culture Centre...

ONLINE ARTICLES

Stop The Boredom In You…

Feride Karahan28/04/201124/06/2014

I AM BORED! Have you ever heard or said this sentence before? Probably the answer will be “Yes” and probably you say it most of the times in a day,...

ONLINE ARTICLES RELIGION & BELIEF

Why Does Not Islam Have Special Missionaries?

Salahaddin Özel17/04/201107/05/2014

Throughout history missionary activities have been important to Church in Christianity and the mission delegates have been raised for that aim by Church authority. Yet in Islam, there has not...

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.