Human Rights and Islam
Question: What is the Islamic stance on human rights? How does Islam regard the killing of a person?…
Religion
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Belief in God: A Matter of Life and Death
Odd as such a question might sound, do you think God is still alive in the twenty-first century?…
A Brief Introduction to the Noble Qur’an
Islam is a fast growing religion in the West. For the last few decades, there has been growing…
Beware of ”Others”
In My Fair Lady, a satirical movie based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Henry Higgins makes a wager…
Rhetoric-An Eloquent Invention: Two Examples from the Present Time
Rhetoric is traditionally defined in literature as the “verbal art” of speaking and writing effectively. In our daily…
Rethinking Islamic Philosophy and Theology
There are not many scholars interested in Islamic philosophy and theology in the West. Despite this fact, there…
The World in the Womb
In the recent past, the Islamic world as a whole has lived through its most depressed periods, whether…
Physics of the Unseen
“Ever since the beginnings of modern science, four or five hundred years ago, scientific thoughts seem to have…
Issues Raised in the Aftermath of the Cartoon Offense
The offensive editorial cartoons published in a Danish newspaper started a controversy that eventually led to protests all…
Has “the Clash of Civilizations” Found Empirical Support?
Samuel Huntington first published his article “The Clash of Civilizations?” in 1993. Later, in 1996 he published “The…
The Portrait of People of Heart
With their vision, faith, and deeds, people of heart are integrated heroes of spirituality. Their profundity relies not…
A Rationale for the Collapse of Civilizations
Any observant individual walking among the ruins of an ancient city is immediately faced with the following question:…
Dialogue with the People of the Book and Exchange of Good Will on Holy Days
God most high has revealed in chapter Mumtahana of the Qur’an two explicit verses which could be considered…
Modern Slavery: Global Trafficking in Human Beings
Each year thousands of people (men, women, and children) fall victim to the vicious and organized trafficking of…
Master and Disciple: An Essay on Joachim Wach
“Master and Disciple: Two Religio-Sociological Studies” is a paper written by Joachim Wach. At the beginning of the…