Social Capital: An Important Power Resource For National Progress
Each nation or community has the desire and potential to establish a civilization on its own land, one…
Religion
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Spiritual Absence and Suicide
My heart misses a beat every time an ambulance pulls up in front of our hospital, tearing the…
Islam and Globalization
The relationship between Islam and globalization has been open to much interpretation and acrimonious debate. At the crux…
Toward Tomorrow
The Islamic world continues to squirm in the vicious grasp of error, unable to turn to its own…
Six Degrees of Separation or Small World
Introduction In his Models of My Life, social scientist Herbert Simon stated that science’s purpose is to find…
Reconsidering Islamic Pluralism in the Contemporary World (1)
The subject of religious pluralism can provoke a great deal of controversy. One could consider all religious knowledge…
For Whom Is the Medieval Era Dark?
In elementary school, we learned about various eras: Prehistoric, Antiquity, Medieval, the Renaissance, and Modernity. But we were…
How does the Qur’an regard “knowledge”?
Q:What are the differences between the Islamic and the modern scientific points of view on knowledge (ilm)? How…
Interfaith Dialog and Peacebuilding
David R. Smock (Editor). Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding.(United States Institute of Peace Press: 2002)150 pages, ISBN 1-929223-35-8. In…
Humanity, Science, and Globalization
Existence, which exists solely for humanity, was created in order to bear fruit for all people. Earth was…
Sharing Responsibility in Communities
Does community membership affect its members’ responsibility? Can people be responsible for their attitudes even when those attitudes…
Indigenous Culture and the Western Concept of Development
The term development is frequently used in third world countries as a normative concept to imply improvement. But…
Terror Beyond Terrorism
A few theories have been proposed about the September 11th attacks upon New York and Washington, DC. Questions…
Freedom, Liberty and Independence
People have sought for freedom ever since humanity was created. This search was pursued by perceiving their willpower…
Christianity in the Qur’anic Prospect
This article discusses how the Quran interprets Christianity. However, before we get started, I would like to remind…