... Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski, Tajik President Imamali Rahmanov, Guinean President Lansana Conte, Cameroonian President Paul Biya and Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu. Turkish Foreign Ministe ...
... ate, or to fill the place of commander-in-chief. Such a situation is the greatest calamity for a nation. With his sublime feelings, Brahman was an immortal teacher to his followers' hearts. Buddha, on the d ...
... emocracy, I want it now," the governor said. AK Party Diyarbakir deputy Abdurrahman Kurt stressed the importance of democracy in his speech. "We take two steps forward and one step back. We are passing t ...
... Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalçinkaya then decided to bring the case before the Supreme Court of Appeals Penal General Committee, the highest legal authority on criminal issues ...
... ns for charity. It was either because he was going to send a contingent to somewhere and he needed equipment, or he was going to feed the poor coming from the desert and see to their needs. Responding ...
... existence and subsistence. His frequent naming of the newborn children of his Companions as Abd Allah (the servant of Allah) and Abd al-Rahman (the servant of the Most Merciful) is another important i ...
... y. The Sufi risks himself. Before God, he vanishes. In vanishing, he becomes a universal or cosmic Self in an Islamic rendition of the Hindu motif, namely the unity of Atman and Brahman. When the Sufi r ...
... of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 9. [25] Haykal, op. cit., 175. [26] Abd al-Rahman Azzam, The Eternal Message of Muhammad. Leicester: The Islamic Texts Society, 1993, 22. [27] Cf. B ...
... g for a way out of this dismal state. In this regard, having studied three different scholars from three different continents, Namik Kemal of Turkey, Muhammad Abduh of Egypt, Sayyid Ahmad Khan of India ...
... a common Qur'anic usage as Reuven Firestone maintains in his Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam (Oxford, 1999), 140, n. 23. [2] See A. J. Wensinck, Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane (Lei ...
... created by five pro-Islamic businessmen -among whom Erol Yarar, Ali Bayramoglu, Natik Akyol and Abdurrahman Esmerer- on May 5, 1990 in Istanbul. The principal objective of MÜSIAD is to help the small ...
... Rahman, 1982; Nasr, 1980). While people struggle to balance different, often opposing identities, there have been notable failures in attempts to make the world more integrated. M. Fethullah Gülen, an edu ...
... ld leaders including those in Southeast Asia. The former President of Indonesia and a prominent Muslim scholar, Abdurrahman Wahid said "it is a must for us to study from Said Nursi and Fethullah Gülen in ...
... empowerment without necessarily losing one's Islamic identity. More specifically their leaders are mostly politically active[16], which brings them closer to the Indonesian examples of Abdurrahman Wahid and ...
... of pleasures. It even happens that in this state they invoke the Divine Being Himself as Allah-the Proper Name of the Supreme Being encompassing all other Names-and as the All-Merciful (al-Rahman)-th ...
... e of sensed existence is essentially identical with the absolute Existence. Divine truths are never the same as relative truths. Although the Divine Names and Attributes, such as God (Allah), the All-Mer ...
... s and peace be on our master Muhammad and on His family and Companions. [1] Sunan al-Tirmidhi, "Birr," 40. [2] Mawlana Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Jami' (1414-1492), commonly called the last ...
... o exceptions—to be otherwise.[16] In the same work, he says that "[t]he Qur'an always accepts forgiveness and tolerance as basic principles,"[17] citing this verse as evidence: Devotees of ArRahman (th ...