Remembrance and tribute
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A life with the flavour of conversation among books: in memory of Cevat Özkaya
The author commemorates the recently deceased publisher Cevat Özkaya, describing how he lived publishing not as a career step but as responsibility and devotion. He argues that the publishers who brought ideas to people deserve their rightful place in the history of Islamist thought.
Kemal Kelleci against his own windmills: a stranger at his own door, familiar to thousands
The author describes Kemal Kelleci's devotion to the Qur'an, his distribution of books and his support for students as an exemplary life of dedication. He says he assesses it without overlooking the costs it brought to his family and without romanticizing it.
Another star has slipped from this sky, and Kemal Kelleci has died
The author remembers Kemal Kelleci, whom he knew closely, as an example of devotion that does not accept defeat and believes that the Islamic subject is built by turning to the Qur'an. He describes Kelleci's character, who did not turn back from his path even when left alone, with a Don Quixote analogy.
Atatürkism in spite of Atatürk
10 November, the anniversary of Atatürk's death, was this year the subject of different commemorative events and therefore of different debates.
Two deaths: one a resurrection, the other a cautionary end
Every soul shall taste death. Death is the decreed event that God has ordained for living beings.
In memory of Mikail Bayram, a jeweller of history
We learned the news of the passing to the eternal abode of the esteemed Seljuk historian Prof. Dr. Mikail Bayram, who had long been under treatment, just as we were landing in Doha for the funeral of the martyr Ismail Haniyeh.
In memory of Prof. Dr. Sait Şimşek, the exegete of "The Qur'an, the Source of Life"
During my years in Konya, working at Selçuk University, I lived many things I count as blessings, made many friendships, and tried to benefit from many fine gatherings of conversation.
What will Raisi's death lead to?
The death of Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with the Foreign Minister, the Friday Imam of Tabriz and the Provincial Governor in an unfortunate helicopter crash fell like a bomb on an already uncertain and turbulent world.
Another sociologist in the prayer ground… In memory of Vehbi Başer
I knew about his condition.
The Middle East and the Palestinian question through the eyes of Erol Güngör
We commemorate Prof. Dr. Erol Güngör, one of the indisputably most valuable thinkers and intellectuals of modern Turkey, whom we lost at a young age, on the 40th anniversary of his death.
In the name of loyalty to Hayreddin Karaman
When our friend Ersin Çelik called me and asked me to attend the night of loyalty to be held in the name of Hayreddin Karaman Hodja by Yıldırım Municipality in Bursa on the night of 30 September, frankly, after an initial moment of hesitation, it was an invitation for which no reason could be valid…
The Qaradawi difference
Yeni Şafak · Yasin Aktay - The Qaradawi difference
Should what is expected of a friend be the friend's death?
This is a very strange question, I am aware. How can a relationship in which what is expected of a friend actually requires their death be called friendship? Truly, who wants their friend to die?
Bearing witness to Rasim Özdenören's witnessing
Deaths continue to follow deaths. As required by the iqama recited in our ear the moment we come into life, we continue to experience a bewilderment and a shock each time we stand to pray for someone.
After 25 years, 28 February
Exactly 25 years have passed since the most cautionary coup in Turkish history, which was said to last 1000 years. In fact within those 25 years we lived through many things that overshadow the gravity, the evil and even the cautionary nature of this coup.
Loyalty to the Prophet
Last week the anniversary of the blessed birth of our Prophet, sent as a mercy to the worlds, was observed. Various events were held on this occasion.
The death of a friend is different: in memory of Gıyasettin Sim
The death of a friend turns out to be different from all other deaths. Perhaps the most shattering herald of our own death. It takes a piece from your life and carries it away. An important piece.
Israel's deadly fear and its inevitable end
Israel's aggression and expansionism, its practices of establishing new Jewish settlements, its violations in Palestine, its attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque are not exceptional practices for it, nor ones it could give up.
The passing of a Qur'an scholar, Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni
We seem to be in an autumn season in which we watch with sorrow the scholars leaving us one by one, slipping like stars from our sky. Within just one month, first M.
A witness of our own world: Muhammed Emin Saraç
A scholar has departed from this world.
Thank you, Markar Esayan
Death is the common fate of all people. In İsmet Özel's moving description, "death, as impartial as a ricocheting bullet", is the most common aspect even of those who have nothing in common in this world.
Can there be a "natural death" in unnatural conditions? The death of Essam el-Erian
14 August is not only the anniversary of the founding of the AK Party.
A funeral ceremony for NATO, or a new beginning?
The London Summit of NATO, celebrating its 70th year, also gave rise to polls and analyses on whether the Alliance's time has run out.
Paris is burning!
The protests that first emerged in France's suburbs, then spread across France and have gradually turned into a revolt, have completed three weeks.
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