Ilm Ethos and Convivencia
Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity explores the mighty continent of Europe by an academic whose origins…
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Jefferson’s Qur’an
Thomas Jefferson occupies a special space among the Founding Fathers as the principal author of the Declaration of…
Islamic Science and Making of the European Renaissance
George Saliba is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at Columbia University in New York, USA. He…
The Myth of Ottoman Despotism
The concept of Chinese script operated as a kind of a European hallucination. Jacques Derrida1 For over two…
In Search of Peace On Integration Problems and Provocations
After the series of violent events in France, the Muslim immigrants in European ghettos and their integration into…
Montaigne and the Ottomans
Essays are like flexible rhapsodies.”1 They are freer, arbitrary, and subjective as compared to a more rigid, systematic,…
Genomes and Languages
Languages are actually not that different from genes. Just as you would expect events like the Barbarian Migrations…
Identity and Political Activity in Modern Europe
The post-communist phenomenon of economic globalization tends to enlarge the economic gap between haves and have-nots. This economic…
The Perils of Nationalism
Third matter Nationalism or ethnic differences have been unleashed in this [twentieth] century, particularly by European officials following…
Collaboration in Interfaith Union
After some 10 years of daily commitment to interreligious dialogue and its organizations, as well as participation in…
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
Why and how civilizations rise and fall is a hard question to answer. To do so, one must…
Reflections on Robinson Crusoe
Part II: Economic Individualism and Secularization The wider context of Robinson Crusoe Crusoe’s relationship with God is sincere,…
Reflections on Robionson Crusoe
Part I: The Myth and the Novel The popularity of Crusoe Excepting the Gospel narrative, no story has…
Transfer of technology from the Islamic world to the West
INTRODUCTION Technology is the tool of civilization, and for Islamic civilization to have been such a leading force…
Al-Andalus: The Lost Civilization
How many people now know who Ibn Hazm, Al-Mu’tamid, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Ishaq al-Butruji were, or even where…