Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kalın
Introduction to the History of the Perception of Islam in the West – 1
The first part of our study will focus on how Islam was initially perceived by Christian theologians, first in the East and then in Europe, as a religious heresy. The roots of common views such as Islam being a religion of the sword, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) being a violent figure, and the Qur’an being a meaningless theological text all go back to this period.
White man’s burden
Demonizing Islam and Muslims in the name of fighting terrorism plays right into the hands of violent extremists and alienates ...
How to be at home everywhere
In his book «The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,» delivered as a lecture course in 1929-30, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger ...
Ibn Khaldun has a Message for us
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhmmad Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), one of the greatest minds of the Islamic intellectual tradition and best known ...
The mental and spiritual fragmentation of the Muslim world
The Muslim world suffers from disunity, poverty and bad governance. Political fragmentation runs deep across what the classical scholars called ...
To be in the world but not of it
One of the criticisms directed at Islam in the Western religious and Orientalist circles is that Islam is too worldly ...
Losing our sense of the mind and heart
The virtual world in which we are living in this phase of late modernity has created an alternative reality where ...
Race for civilization
The last big debate over civilization was triggered over two decades ago by Samuel Huntington’s book, “The Clash of Civilizations ...
‘Hayy ibn Yaqdhan’ and the European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl (1116 to 1185), one of the luminaries of Andalusian Islam, is best known for his philosophical tale “Hayy ...
The Muslim World at a Defining Crossroads
The Muslim world is currently experiencing one of the most critical turning points in its modern history. The tension between ...
