Sinan Pasha: The Architect

The sultan became aware of Sinan’s architectural work in the 1530s during his military career a ...

Why Should Muslims Lower Their Gaze?

Islam wants to establish a clean society where desire is not aroused at every moment, and eroti ...

Poverty in Secular and Islamic Economics (Part 1 / 2)

There are different ways of defining poverty and measuring it. One may classify those definitio ...

Teaching and Purifying

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) held the most challenging leadership positions in Isla ...

The Prophet’s Mercy towards the Elderly (P. 1/2)

Prophet Muhammad was a pioneer in this field. He taught caring for the elderly irrespective of ...

Reward of the Oppressed

Then the verses speak about those immigrants who were forced to leave their countries behind an ...

The Status of Women in Islam (P. 3-3)

Islam granted women contractual rights, conjugal rights, the right to inherit, to initiate divo ...

Islam, the Modern Alternative (P. 1)

Humans lack perfect knowledge as well as perfect wisdom. No matter how hard we try, we will nev ...

The Last Great Caliph: Abdulhamid II

Throughout Islamic history, one of the uniting aspects of the Muslim world was the caliphate. A ...

Concept of Gender Equality in Islam (P. 2)

Islam recognizes that while men and women have some physical differences, spiritually they enjo ...

Difficulties: True Character of the World

For this reason, if life is full of difficulties and challenges, one should not be surprised or ...

The Status of Women in Islam (P. 2-3)

Again, the Islamic conception of woman is radically different. The Qur’an clarifies that Satan ...