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Issue 48 (October - December 2004)

Issue 48 (October - December 2004)

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The World and its Contents from the PERSPECTIVE OF A BELIEVER

M. Fethullah Gulen

This world is a wonderful vessel for humankind, floating in this vast universe, the place that we exist and feel our existence. It is also a warm d...

A Neglected Value in The 21st Century: NEIGHBORLINESS

Alphonse Dougan

Neighborhood and neighborliness is an important social value that is often neglected in this century. Just as in Judaism and Christianity, the righ...

Symmetry and Beauty

Bayram Yerlikaya

When visiting Moscow University, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, the famous physicist and the founder of Quantum Mechanics, as well as being the fifteen...

Paragon of Unity: Discovering The Essence of the Abrahamic Messages

Dr. Ibrahim Canan

When I first heard a politician say, “We can rule from beyond the grave,” I didn’t respond very positively. “What does that mean?” I exclaimed in...

Nonprofit Organizations in Modern Societies

Dr. Naim F. Erdem

Nonprofit organizations (henceforward “nonprofits”) are those agencies that are nongovernmental entities incorporated under state laws as charitabl...

Prayer An Inexhaustible Treasure for the Human Spirit (A Nursi Reader)

Dr. Zeki Saritoprak

There are two Arabic words that describe the nature of prayer. The word “salat” describes prayer through words and performance, such as bowing and ...

Children and Violent Computer Games

Suddenly he got up from where he was sitting and started to shout. He was furious just because he couldn’t kill the man who was firing at him. He s...

Love of Animals in a Contemporary Student of a Timeless Teacher

Alphonse Dougan

Love of animals is a part of the love of the creation. This love is a consequence of the love a believer feels for the universe as a mirror of the ...

Health Provided Through The Teeth

Being the product of the cosmic tree, human beings are one of the most complicated biological systems, all-inclusively equipped with both material ...

Collective Intelligence in Ant Colonies

Social insects such as termites, some bees and wasps in general, and ants in particular, have held a mysterious fascination for men since the begin...

CONSTRUCTIVISM in Piaget and Vygotsky

Constructivism is a new approach in education that claims humans are better able to understand the information they have constructed by themselves....

The Guests of The Palace

The sandstorm was over. It was a horrible night. The caravan was lost in the middle of nowhere. The camels were taking us to a place we knew nothin...

Is There an Islamic Code of Conduct Concerning Way of Dressing

There are no formal rules in Islam concerned with the way one wears one’s hair, the style of clothing or anything else related to external appearan...

Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes and Hero-Worship and Heroic in History

Carlyle was Scottish and lived in England, but he had close relations with the “New World” and had readers in the United States. He had a lifelong ...

Editorial (Issue 48)

Humanity is the most honorable member of all creation, a fact underscored by the divine revelation Surely We created man of the best stature (Tin 9...

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