Quotes

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• Artificial intelligence cannot simply be seen as a new technology; it is a historical rupture that changes the way knowledge is produced.

  Many signs have appeared that call for rethinking the university · 29 June 2026

• While religion was expected to withdraw from the modern world, in many parts of the world it has returned to public life.

  The crisis of secularization theory and new quests · 22 June 2026

• However heavy the oppression, when there is a will to resist it, God's way does not change and His promise does not fail.

  Syria on the way to becoming a "homeland" for all Syrians · 17 June 2026

• When a war stops achieving its declared goals and begins to make them impossible, it ceases to be a strategic instrument and turns into an addiction.

  Is the war over, did Iran lose? Did Netanyahu lose? · 10 June 2026

• If the reward of democratic politics is prison, why should people choose democratic ways?

  Never having enough of punishing Ghannouchi! · 6 June 2026

• Every day on which it is not known what has happened to a mother, a father or a child, the oppression in a sense continues.

  Dr. Rania al-Abbasi, her husband and their six children · 3 June 2026

• A sacrificial animal sent to the camps of Arakan is not merely an aid package; it is a hand of brotherhood extended to forgotten people.

  The civilization carried by the sacrifice: from Turkey to the oppressed regions of the world · 1 June 2026

• The suffering of the oppressed is accepted; but the laughter of the oppressed is not tolerated.

  Ishmaelite lessons on the sacrifice · 30 May 2026

• The human mind tends most of the time to think of God through its own needs, angers, desires and power relations.

  The sacrifice in the context of Gaza, and humanity's trial in the mirror of the conception of God · 27 May 2026

• The universality of Islam is a moral call grounded in the ontological equality of human beings.

  Westernist universalism works by rendering its own historical locality invisible · 26 May 2026

• For Muslims, decolonialism is a matter of actual existence, beyond being a fantastical-intellectual theory.

  You wanted to decolonize, and did we stand in the way? · 25 May 2026

• The truth is that civilization cannot live on cynical criticism alone. Civilization demands construction.

  A critique of radical criticism: the inevitability of turning from suspicion to construction · 18 May 2026

• The East was not discovered by the West; it was rather invented, even fabricated.

  Rethinking Occidentalism from the perspective of decolonization at Siirt University: overcoming the West or being imprisoned by it? · 16 May 2026

• Istanbul has never been an ordinary city throughout history; it has been a threshold where civilizations touch one another and different traditions of knowledge meet.

  The Istanbul perspective: the new language of decolonization and Turkey's historical role · 13 May 2026

• Gaza is not struggling to survive only on its own behalf; it is waging a struggle for dignity on behalf of all humanity.

  A testimony from Bingöl to Gaza · 9 May 2026

• In the language of war, it is "civilian losses"; in human language, it is the systematic annihilation of defenseless lives.

  The ceasefire has a name, yet it keeps burning Gaza · 29 April 2026

• Ultimately, parliament, the heart of the republic and of democracy, was not established in Turkey together with the Republic; it is an institution that existed much earlier.

  Was parliament established in Turkey for the first time on 23 April? · 22 April 2026

• Goodness is contagious, kindness is contagious, compassion is contagious… But evil is contagious too, rudeness is contagious, violence is contagious, and unfortunately the contagiousness of evil is faster than that of goodness.

  Violence at school: a symptom of our social malaise · 18 April 2026

• Societies sometimes speak not with long speeches but with short answers.

  Public opinion in the shadow of war: what are the peoples of Turkey and America saying? · 13 April 2026

• The ummah was never an ethnic category; nor was it a linguistic closure.

  The delusion of resurrection of the dying: the cautionary tale of the Baath · 8 April 2026

• The moment a war is lost is not on the front but when society stops giving it meaning.

  LIKE THE FIRST SUCCESS, THE FIRST TRAP: the language of victory and the reality of defeat for the US and Israel · 6 April 2026

• The trial is not the business of easy times but of hard times, and it is itself hard.

  Truly, it is not the time for nothing · 4 April 2026

• If memory is operated not as a moral warning but as a claim of right, it can easily turn into a source of violence.

  The Pharaoh's watch: the dialectical or cautionary recurrence of the massacre of children · 25 March 2026

• Not every hegemonic discourse produces officialdom; nor does every political superiority automatically acquire the quality of historical founding.

  Before an unparalleled history and an unparalleled regime, even hegemony remains far from officialdom · 21 March 2026

• A person's creed and faith determine both his morality and his way of conducting himself on earth.

  Between power, rote and truth in historiography, our rote is too asymmetrical, Nuray Mert · 18 March 2026

• One of the liveliest fields to which anyone who wants to understand the relationship between religion and society in Turkey must look is Ramadan.

  The sociology of a changing Turkey in the mirror of Ramadan · 11 March 2026

• Social engineering aims at one thing, but the projects actually carried out produce other and unwanted results.

  History repeats itself for the United States, which draws no lessons · 9 March 2026

• Conflicts loaded with an existential and metaphysical meaning are harder to end.

  Israel's theological obsessions and the commentators who attach these obsessions to Israel and drag the world into catastrophe · 4 March 2026

• Criticism is a right; but belittling society and insulting the faith of millions of people is not freedom of expression.

  Ramadan at the heart of education: the school meeting life · 23 February 2026

• Fasting is the quietest but most essential struggle a person wages against his own body.

  Will we be able to see ourselves in the mirror of Ramadan? · 21 February 2026

• No liberating idea that heals the heart can come from books that can exist only where there is prohibition.

  The 57th Damascus International Book Fair: a threshold where "we write history… we read history" · 16 February 2026

• Islam condemns people's boasting of superiority over one another on account of characteristics they were born with, that is, to which they contributed nothing.

  Muslims have their own solutions to racism; they see racism not as a right but as a deviation · 11 February 2026

• In Gaza the ugliness is not only the destruction itself; it is the speed at which the world gets used to it.

  The beautiful, the good and the ugly: Gaza and the Epstein affair · 7 February 2026

• A person or a group is not wronged because he is not given more than equality.

  In Syria no one has the right to ask for more than equality · 17 January 2026

• No one can, or should, wrong the Kurds, the Turks, the Arabs or any people.

  Syria is for everyone and only together with everyone… The SDF east of the Euphrates is contrary to sociology · 12 January 2026

• Many signs have appeared that we are on the threshold of a new global order.

  Turkey on the threshold of a new global order: a rising power in multi-layered crises · 5 January 2026

• Climates change, oppressions that seemed never to end come to an end, oppressors are crushed, the sun rises, and the world grows brighter than snow.

  Will it snow in the provinces of Yemen too? · 3 January 2026

• The existence of the Islamic world as a subject can only be embodied in an organization that takes Islam as its reason for being and its reference.

  Islamic unity is the concern not of others but of Muslims · 29 December 2025

• Undoubtedly Akif too made mistakes, but even dwelling on these mistakes has qualities valuable enough to hold up a mirror to ourselves.

  The last hearth smoking over my homeland, before it goes out! · 27 December 2025

• A strong, charismatic and organic leadership is a great stroke of luck for a country.

  A reminder to the SDF: whoever invests in Israel is doomed to lose · 20 December 2025

• The West is not the only different world, the only different civilization or form of society that Muslims have encountered.

  Have we now taken the knowledge and art of the West? · 17 December 2025

• Undoubtedly, throughout history the Islamic world has encountered very different civilizations, cultures and societies, and just as it gave them much, it has also taken much from them.

  D. Mehmet Doğan and "The Betrayal of Westernization" · 13 December 2025

• Freedom is a great value whose worth is understood very well when great prices have been paid for it.

  What does everyone expect from the new Syria and its leader? · 10 December 2025

• A perceived sense of power can very easily lead a person into heedlessness and error.

  The Sheikh of Love Melayê Cizîrî Symposium in Cizre and Barzani's participation · 3 December 2025

• Islamism means, above all, being able to think together with the Muslims of the world, having shared concerns and goals.

  The search for a "just global order" in Pakistan · 1 December 2025

• The helplessness shown by the Islamic world in the face of what is happening in Gaza is of course not a destiny.

  What excuse does the Islamic world have in El Fasher? · 19 November 2025

• It is, of course, a sociological rule: attacks awaken group identity and nourish and reinforce the spirit of solidarity and asabiyya.

  Balfour and the abolition of the Caliphate, or the founding of Israel and the awakening of the idea of Islamic unity · 17 November 2025

• Even when we recite the Surah al-Fatiha alone in our prayers, we address God not as "I" but as "we".

  Islamic unity in the context of Gaza and the caliphate remembered anew · 15 November 2025

• A non-Islamic Turkishness, as aimed at, could have had nothing to do with Turkishness.

  We are on the horizon of a common future, brotherhood and social peace · 29 October 2025

• Legitimacy is related not to the use of force but to being accepted.

  Will Israel be tried in Istanbul? · 27 October 2025

• The Islamic world is a reaction by Muslims to fragmentation and the helplessness arising from it, and a conceptual refuge they have produced to take shelter in.

  From Gaziantep: where is the Islamic world headed? · 25 October 2025

• Truly, no country can survive for long with such a paranoid view, seeing everyone as a potential enemy and attacking everyone it sees as a potential enemy.

  The greatest threat to Israel is Israel itself · 22 October 2025

• Even if everything cannot be done, it is of course not that nothing can be done.

  Is your stone for Israel, or for those who throw stones at Israel? · 13 October 2025

• In trying to blockade Gaza, Israel found itself subjected to a blockade of conscience throughout the world.

  The Sumud flotilla has reached its goal; next is the Freedom Flotilla · 4 October 2025

• Constitutions, also defined as a social contract, are the texts to which society is the last to be party, and whose approval signatures are often even obtained by force.

  On the horizon of the debate on a new and civil constitution · 15 September 2025

• God sent us the Qur'an not as a completed book between two covers, but as a book lived and interpreted within the life of a prophet and his companions.

  Prayers and peace upon the Prophet · 6 September 2025

• Even if states can do nothing, the peoples and consciences of the world cannot accept what is happening and want to do something.

  Rising anger and the Global Sumud Flotilla · 1 September 2025

• The fact that what has been done so far has not produced a final result of course does not mean that it has had no effect or benefit.

  Messages of the world's Islamic scholars from Hagia Sophia · 29 August 2025

• It is a historical rule, a divine law, that where a dangerous, destructive, dominant power rises excessively, a saving power also emerges.

  Gaza against the bare lives of the Zionist dominant order · 18 August 2025

• Who is afraid of Muslims being one and together, uniting their strength and loving one another like brothers?

  Who perceives a threat from the reality of the ummah? · 26 July 2025

• Suffocating a friend with our expectations and destroying him in our own minds by loading him with what we expect of him is in fact a form of deviation that people often resort to.

  "Expectations of the Prophet" and "making distinctions between the prophets" · 7 July 2025

• A person can more easily give up his own life, but being tested through the one he loves is the hardest of trials.

  Satan is in torment indeed · 5 July 2025

• To be able to become free, a person must first see that he is not free. To be saved from servitude to other servants, he must become aware of the servitude he is performing.

  The hands that opened and wrote the "Red Gate" of freedom · 23 June 2025

• No one is blamed for another's sin or condemned to pay a penalty for it.

  The veil that falls between truth and the eye is lifted by the sacrifice · 7 June 2025

• Those who see politics merely as a means for their personal advancement, even if they entered it with lofty meanings, are destined sooner or later to be positioned alongside the wicked.

  On Islam, morality and politics · 2 June 2025

• In Islam, the lawful and the forbidden, as the criterion of good and evil, are in themselves the foundation of morality.

  Can there be no morality in politics? · 31 May 2025

• Even under the harshest conditions of despotism, it is not possible to establish absolute control over popular rumours about what is happening.

  If loyalty to history is not shown, truth takes on a form that will astonish humanity · 21 May 2025

• Even though we live in the same world and pass through the same circle of events, we make our difference with our intentions and our outlook.

  Looking like a Muslim · 3 May 2025

• Contrary to what is thought, economic difficulties do not reduce fertility; on the contrary, the groups whose fertility is declining are those whose level of welfare has risen even higher.

  Muslim men and Muslim women: old and new questions · 23 April 2025

• A person who insists on pursuing his own truths, risking and paying the price of being excluded, inspires respect whatever happens.

  Nuray Mert and "membership in a terrorist organization" · 12 April 2025

• Within every form of dress there are ideology, identity, gender and personality.

  Wasn't the road back to fascism closed? · 4 January 2021

• Throughout history epidemics in particular have killed more people than wars, but they have not been remembered as much as wars.

  What will we remember and what will we forget? · 2 January 2021

• Innocence must always be given a greater chance to win, wherever and under whatever ideological or psychological constraints it may be placed.

  How does Turkey's terrorist appear to the ECHR? · 30 December 2020

• Let us nevertheless not darken our hope and will, and let us keep saying: the outlaw will not rule the world.

  Normalization with Israel is a way of whitewashing crimes against humanity · 26 September 2020

• Evil is never a destiny; it is always a choice that demands responsibility.

  The Last Dictator · 19 September 2020

• Without conscience, without compassion, without responsibility, what law could protect woman from man, child from cruel parent, woman from woman, the young from the old, the worker from the employer?

  Laws, their interpretations, applications and effects · 29 July 2020

• We have broken away from some traditions, but we have not yet been able to create new traditions and values suited to them.

  Do we know what we are debating in the Istanbul Convention? · 27 July 2020

• In defiance of Islam, which places the rights of fellow human beings above all rights, the greatest number of human rights violations in the world are in Islamic countries.

  On the occasion of Hagia Sophia, a word from Muslims to Muslims · 25 July 2020

• Islam is the only religion and worldview that has been able to secure coexistence with other religions by binding it to law, even in its vision of the future.

  Words that will reach the world from the minarets of Hagia Sophia · 22 July 2020

• From the greatness, loftiness and goodness of our ancestors, a share falls to us only if we too adopt the same values and show the same stance.

  Hagia Sophia, the mirror of our world… · 13 July 2020

• Ultimately, caring about the plight of those who are unable to defend their rights, of people who have truly suffered oppression and been victimized and left destitute, is one of the most basic conditions of being human.

  Who cares about refugees and their children? · 8 July 2020

• There is a great difference, which cannot be removed under any circumstances, between reading a text with belief and reading it without belief.

  If every translation is a distortion · 17 June 2020

• Throughout history humanity has moved back and forth between piety and worldliness.

  Does a Qur'an translation lead a person astray? · 15 June 2020