The Inner Dimensions of Faith as a Ground of Interreligious Dialogue
As the famous Sufi poet Jalal al-Din al-Rumi (d. 1273) once said, “Listen with ears of tolerance, see…
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Tinge of Life
In his Twentieth Word, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, a 20th century Islamic scholar and teacher, uses an interesting phrase,…
Atheism or Theism: The Never-Ending Debate
Atheism or Theism: The Perspective of Said Nursi, Wipf & StocksBy Hakan Gok20189781532646799 The existence of God has…
How the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind
Antony Flew, who once claimed to be one of the world’s leading atheists, chose to believe in God…
Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: A Different Perspective
Looking at Virginia Woolf’s contemplations of characters in “Mrs. Dalloway” and Said Nursi’s ruminations on profound inner struggles,…
A Conversation Starter
The question of dialogues between different faiths and cultures is one of the most important questions of our…
Questioning Techniques and Wait Time
Socrates is the first known philosopher to have used questioning in a systematic way with an ethical purpose…
The Source of Love
Love… Man and the universe was created because of love and it can only be understood through love……
Divergent Thinking and the Religious Texts: The Case of Islam
The concept of divergent thinking was first mentioned by prominent psychologist J. P. Guilford (1950), who defined it…
First Journey to Light
Recognized scholar of his time by many contemporaries, and author of the great Risale-i Nur collection, Bediuzzaman Said…
Psychological Projection: Islamic and Freudian Views
Projection is a term applied by Sigmund Freud for the act of projecting one’s feelings, attitudes, etc. onto…
How Finite Becomes Infinite
Followers of the Abrahamic religions-Muslims, Christians, and Jews in general-believe in an eternal life after death, in one…
Interfaith Dialogue and Alliance Principles in the Works of Said Nursi
Said Nursi (d. 1960) was one of the pivotal Muslim scholars of the twentieth century who supported the…
The Appeal of the Qur’an to Observation and Reason
Humans are endowed with the faculties of reason and intellect, and to ask them to abandon their intellectual…
Attaining Knowledge of God
Every human being is endowed with an inquisitive nature; there is an innate quest to find answers to…