Award-winning author Bradley Steffens introduces Ibn al-Haytham in this first full biography ever written about him. Though not a household name as far as the history of science goes, with his major contributions going largely unnoticed and uncredited, Ibn al-Haytham, who lived a thousand years ago, is finally being recognized as the world's first ......
In this first ever life story of Fethullah G len, Jon Pahl explores the story of one of the most controversial figures of our times both as the personal biography of the person from Turkey to the United States and the public biography of the social movement he has inspired.
Offering a particular world view, understanding of economics, popular trademarks, and ways of consumption, modernity compels modern and isolating sorts of relationship that ostracises the family from its territories as it is the most strongest station of resistance to so called virtues of modernity. In short, modernism simply tears the family to ......
Toward the end of the last century, the Hizmet Movement emerged in Turkish society as a major proponent of civil society. "Hizmet," also known as the Guelen Movement after its spiritual teacher Fethullah Guelen, achieved prominent recognition for its educational and multicultural work in Tuerkiye and elsewhere in the world. Hizmet, with its ......
This book aims to explore how the Central Asian Republics have managed their relations with small and major powers during the 25 years following the collapse of the USSR. The authors identify and discuss the questions like: what are the Central Asian states' interests and how ...
Early Islamic Culinary Art focuses on the meals in the time of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, after 14 centuries. This work presents the culinary culture of the time, methods of cooking, kitchen utensils, and recipes from the early Islamic period. The collection of plates used in the pictures is another distinguishing feature ......
Gulens Philosophy for a Global Revival of Civilization
There is no doubt that we are stepping towards understanding humanitys power even though until now the steps we are taking are slow. Nonetheless, these steps are in the right direction. Ashrati says Gulen has turned our attention towards this power. He explained that it exists within us in the depth of our innermost beings. Without this power, man ......
Sharing the same prison cell crammed with teachers, doctors, and mothers with babies, a Kurdish female journalist conveys the story of persecution under an authoritarian regime in present-day Turkey. It is not only Kurds, the Orphan Nation of Mesopotamia, she finds out, but all who think differently than the government are made to pay a high price ......
This volume has two goals. One is to explore the life and the thought of Fethullah Gulen and the important educational and peace-inducing activities in which he and those inspired by him have been engaged for several decades. The outcome of those effortsof creating schools and providing diverse social and cultural services that bring people ......
