Finding Faith in Difficult Times: Ten thinkers on the writings of Said Nursi
Many western readers are unfamiliar with Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, an Islamic scholar who wrote mostly in the first…
Issue 124 (July - Aug 2018)
15 articles
The Four Most Difficult Virtues
Question: Why are forgiveness, generosity, chastity, and speaking up for truth said to be the four virtues very…
A Global Democratization Formula
One morning, an office friend gets my attention and asks, “Have I (ever) given you this book?” The…
Science Square (Issue 124)
Magnetic wire could allow early cancer detection Vermesh O. et al. An intravascular magnetic wire for the high-throughput…
Göbekli Tepe: The World’s First Religious Temple
Discovery In 1963, a team of American and Turkish archeologists surveyed Southeast Turkey, looking for sites of archeological…
Honey: The First Wound Healing Agent in Human History
Hay and Su had been hungry for almost a week. Spring was in full bloom, and birds were…
It’s Not About Where You Break
After watching my father battle a severe mental illness, threaten my family members, and assault a family friend,…
80 Miles
80 miles. 80 long, traffic-filled miles ahead of me. Breathe. Yes. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. This isn’t working.…
Curtains in the Breeze
Trauma and memory being the strange things they are, a part of me will always be there. A…
How Is Baby Affected If The Parents’ Blood Types Do Not Match?
Happy start Your blood type is one of the least important matters in your life unless you are…
Bitter Truths and Hopes
Thus far in time, and across different parts of the world, we have witnessed desires to realize a…
Albert Camus and Said Nursi on the Problem of Evil
Many atheists suggest that if God exists, there should not be evil, since God, by definition, is omnipotent,…
Virtual Reality as a Learning Tool in Modern Education
A group of friends are out in the city, shopping. While they are walking down a crowded sidewalk,…
Photosystem II: Can It Be Applied in Hydrocar Technology?
For hundreds of years, people believed that the sun rotated around the Earth. Similarly, people have misbelieved that…
Talwin and Tamkin (Coloring and Self-Possession)
Meaning coloring, taking on a color, painting, and presenting different views, talwin (coloring) in the Sufi language is…