İzmirli İsmail Haqqi His Life Works and Views İnsan Publications

Is it not time to search for paradigms beyond capitalism and socialism? The book argues that interactions between the claims of “ownership”, “control” and “use” can elucidate crisis in our environments through measuring responsibilities. Levels of responsibility created by propeties’ and individuals’ rights developed by societal systems, shape our attitudes and actions in most realms of urban life such as utilization, maintenance, investments, etc. In this edition, further arguments were added such as the i

The dominance of science as well as its status are indisputable in todays culture. Today, while rationality has come to be identified with science, natural science is considered to be the best instance of rational thought. Halil Rahman Açar expounds the problem of rationality that has always been a core philosophical issue as it is today. Açar presents to us, rationality, not only as an issue of science or philosophy, but also of ethics, religion, psychology, sociology and anthropology. He critiques the ide

Paul is one of the most controversial figures in the history of Christianity who is often viewed as a missionary, an original thinker, a prominent theologian, as well as a messenger and a prophet who preached the message of Christ. However, by others he is noted as a follower of Hellenism, a Gnostic or an individual from the traditions of secret societies, the one who went far beyond the teachings of historical Jesus. Gündüz expounds the role of Paul in shaping Christianity and his relation to historical

There has recently been a significant revival of interest and speculation concerning the cosmological argument among other arguments for the existence of God. As Hacınebioğlu notes, this is not only due to philosophical discussions of considerable depth and profundity from Plato to Leibnitz, but also due to the recent developments in physics and astronomy, the emergence of the Big Bang theory and related advances in the field of quantum physics, the scientific community, which seems to have moved much close

Both Jesus and Muhammad had their differences in terms of their personalities, social, religious, geographical, economic conditions, and backgrounds yet each was called to a prophetic mission by the same Divine Being and their acts conformed to the ideal-type, charisma, and charismatic leader in the terminology of Weber. Görener not only expounds the prophetic leadership of both Jesus and Muhammad from a sociological point of view in reference to Webers definitions of the terms ideal type and charismatic

The most influential of traditional religious brotherhoods is the Naqshbandi community, whose members include many prominent politicians including the late President Turgut Özal, former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, and the current Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, all of whom belong to the İskenderpaşa community of the Naqshbandi brotherhood in Istanbul. This fact alone is surely sufficient enough to demonstrate the importance of understanding the teachings of that community. Şahin Alpay Columnist of Zam

The ethical dimension of human attitude towards nature is one of the most controversial problems of today as it was in the past. With an awareness of the moral and metaphysical dimensions present in environmental problems, İbrahim Özdemir presents the consequences of the human-nature relationship and the way in which it is threatening not only to nature, but also to the very being of humankind and his or her future. İbrahim Özdemir seeks not only to answer the following questions: How is nature perceived

This is a collection of essays of the late Mehmed Nusret Tura (1903-1979), a contemporary Sufi, published during 1967-1968 in two different newspapers. The Path of Love, imbued with divine love and wisdom, should be considered as a contemporary Sufi chronicle, which provides us with an unbroken and lively continuance of a profound tradition from the classical period up until today.

Bahauddin Naqshband of Bukhara, known as the reviver of the Khwajagan school, is one of the most eminent Sufi figures of the 14th century. After Bahauddin Naqshbands time, this school later came to be known as the Naqshbandiyya order which has now spread throughout the entire Islamic world. Since then, the Sufi views of Bahauddin Naqshband and the Naqshbandiyya order have functioned as an elaborate part of the fabric of Muslims lives, both on material and spiritual planes. This book is a humble contribution

Love in Sufism investigates the significance of divine love in the Islamic tradition, with particular reference to Sufism. Although Sufis are considered the forerunners of writing on the subject of divine love, there is a relative paucity of literature regarding the details of their conceptions of love. Love in Sufism by Süleyman Derin should be considered as one of the first instances in its field that covers the thoughts of a wide number of Sufi figures writing in Arabic. Süleyman Derin not only provides