Soil-Cleaning Plants
Soil has significant functions for securing the maintenance of life on earth. The food and water that plants…
Issue 66 (November - December 2008)
20 articles
Greed
It missed the seventh anniversary of 9/11 by a hair’s breadth, but many will remember 9/15 of 2008…
It’s me, Peter, your intestine!
Peter, maybe now you will snap at me saying, “What are you trying to do? You are nothing…
A Dream Worth The Entire World
Others may think differently; but for me our world is so charming with its exquisite climate, landscape, mountains…
A Journey of Discovery
I first became interested in Ottoman women in the early 1990s when I read a newly published book…
On Hibernation and Bedsores
You would have thought them awake though they were asleep. We caused them to turn over to the…
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
When Karen Armstrong was asked to make a wish as one of the 2008 TED prize winners, she…
The Death of the Aral Sea
The Aral crisis is the best example of an ecological problem with serious social and economic consequences, directly…
“You alone do we worship…” (Fatiha 1:5)
O Lord! I am determined that I will not sacrifice my freedom to anyone but You and I…
Women and the Qur’anic Prescriptions
One of the most sensitive and oft-debated issues with regard to Islam concerns the status and role of…
Reevaluating Cholesterol
The message to lower cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease has been widely circulated. However, recent…
Is Redundancy Always Redundant?
Normally, we associate the idea of redundancy with such concepts as wastefulness, uselessness repetition, and superfluity. However, there…
Can Genes Alone Explain Everything?
Genetics is probably one of the fastest developing contemporary sciences with an incredibly large accumulation of knowledge. This…
Time Management in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
In the preface to his book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Michael…
Khawf and Khashya (Fear and Reverence)
In Sufism, khawf (fear) denotes abstaining not only from all that is forbidden, but also from deeds from…