Islam and Democracy: A Critical Perspective on a Misconstrued Relationship
Nowadays, there is hardly any topic in the field of political science more interesting than the question of…
Issue 61 (January - February 2008)
21 articles
The Relationship between Our Prayers and Deeds
What are the ways of internalizing good ethical conduct and high virtues so as to make them a…
Blue Light, Daytime Sleep and the Prophetic Tradition
Sleep is a blessing from God. Humans spend around one third of their lives sleeping. Sleep is essential…
The Nature of the Closeness of God
Is God close to human beings? If so, how close is He? Or is defining Him in terms…
What Fuzzy Logic Lets Us Think
Fuzzy logic is a new systemized model which is just as important as the more familiar classical logic…
Do Not Underestimate Small Things
Who does not want to know the future? Is it not one of our impossible dreams to obtain…
Beware of ”Others”
In My Fair Lady, a satirical movie based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Henry Higgins makes a wager…
Who Wants a Transformer?
He is God, the Creator, the Evolver, the Giver of Forms and Colors. (Hashr 59:24) Halima was making…
Halwat and Uzlat (Privacy And Seclusion)
Literally meaning solitude and living alone, halwat and ‘uzlat (privacy and seclusion) within the context of Sufism denote…
Peer Instruction: A Better Way to Learn
Teaching and learning are two common human activities. If we need to name a great difference between humans…
Rainbow
Sky in blue, earth in green, dyes of all shades. Rainbows in all directions across the horizon, Touched…
Citadel of the Self: Incompleteness Theorem
What is consciousness? Is it established in the brain, or distributed throughout the whole body? Is it physical?…
The Construction of Intelligence in Terms of Cultural Differences between East and West
As human beings, we live in societies that create their own systems of meanings through the process known…
Quantum Entanglement: Illusion or Reality?
Science has always influenced philosophy. Trivial and not instantaneous effects of change in scientific thought eventually result in…
The Wonderer
When you travel long enough and become a stranger to every land you step on, you stop having…