In 571 BCE, the Ch’ang Sage, Lao Tze wrote the Tao te Ching, which is an extraordinary text dealing with the inward dimensions of man. His contemporary was the great statesman Confucious who wrote the
“Beauty is the Splendour of Truth.” Plato On a recent trip to Turkey, I visited some of the most breathtaking mosques built by great Ottoman sultans nearly six hundred years ago. Undoubtedly the mosque that
This is the third article of the Malcolm X series. In the previous two articles we highlighted certain lessons by looking into the racist ideas that were prominent during Malcolm's time. Then we noted how
Last month, this writer wrote an introduction to series of articles that are intended to draw lessons from the life of Malcolm X. In this part, we will examine his life from his birth up
A couple of weeks ago I was part of a group of men in discussion. The main theme around the table was how men can salvage their manhood in this day and age. One of
(Or, on why it has taken hundreds of years of publicly lynching Blacks, for most of y’all to find out last week.) Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim: We live under the hegemony of a European project
"Do you know what home is?" "Yesterday", answers Clive Wearing to his wife when she asks. She is the only person he remembered after contracting an illness that attacked his central nervous system and damaged
“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself a million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive,
Dr. Tubanur Yesilhark Ozkan and is a scholar and co-director of the International Foundation for Muslim Theology (IMFT). She holds a doctorate from Durham University and is the author of "A Muslim Response to Evil: