Darwin’s Last Dilemma
In the video series Darwin’s Last Dilemma, we lay the foundation for one of the most significant challenges to the theory of evolution, which has reached its complete form through recent scientific peer-reviewed research articles.
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The Politicization of Islam
The Politicization of Islam deals with social, cultural and political modernization, the ethnic formation of the Ottoman Empire, and the role of Islam and Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1876: 1909 AD) in adapting and contrasting and correcting this transformation and modernization.
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Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
The logic of the Qur’an
The book “Logic of the Quran” aims to elucidate that the Divine Scripture encompasses all the principles and guidelines necessary for rectifying and safeguarding the human intellect from errors and misjudgments in thoughts, wills, and actions. God created humankind, endowed them with reason, and blessed them with the faculties of thought and awareness. However, He did not leave them without guidance but provided them with a lifeline to rescue them from the pitfalls of erroneous thinking, deviant orientations, and false practices.
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Reforming the Mind on The Path of Truth, Honesty and Justice
Ottoman Regular Courts
The book offers a fascinating exploration of Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s reform initiatives and authoritarian governance, particularly the centralization of state power. It questions how 19th-century people received a legal system influenced by French law, the state’s success in establishing the separation of powers, efforts to mitigate legal pluralism’s side effects, how people used this pluralism for personal gains, and the state’s attempts to curb court corruption. Rubin provides insightful answers to these and other complex questions in his comprehensive study.
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Law and Modernity
Libraries in Ottoman Empire
The book highlights the contributions of Ottoman society in establishing libraries and organizing their operations, aimed at promoting education and the culture of reading. It challenges the longstanding narrative that the Ottoman Empire undervalued science and was indifferent to spreading knowledge. This misconception, still prevalent today, is often based on sources biased against the Ottoman Empire. Erünsal’s work underlines the difficulty, perhaps even the impossibility, of accurately understanding Ottoman history without consulting sources in Turkish.
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Historical Development, Management and Organization
Science and Islamization
This book delves into the relationship between Sharia (Islamic law) and the social sciences, exploring the unique aspects of Sharia in a social context. It examines the intersection of scientific authority and Sharia, the significance of language and its conceptual values, the preference for empirical realism over theory, and the blending of science with humanistic studies. It discusses how scientific discourse in Islamic civilization evolved into a widespread culture known for its clarity and simplicity, among other features.
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Financial Reform
In the Islamic view, which aligns with modern economic principles, the market is seen as a crucial economic driver. However, Islam uniquely emphasizes the role of labor as the foundation of economic strength rather than capital. While Islam values money, it does not consider it as the primary force behind economic activities. Instead, money is deemed a secondary element, subject to the guiding principles of religious and ethical values. Development that lacks these foundations is considered misleading and unsustainable, potentially leading to deeper societal issues like poverty and social decline.
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Islamic Prudence and the Distressed Economy
History of Islamic Political Thinking
This book collects the diaspora of Islamic political thinking, and gives a firm ground for it throughout the Islamic era, starting from the era of the prophet and the Rightly Guided Caliphs to the present. The author, based on the available translations of Arabic literature, traced the development of Islamic political thinking, whether in the form of political philosophy, political jurisprudence, or what was written in the form of political advice (kings’ advice).
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From Prophethood to the Present
Islamic Law and Transnational Diplomatic Law
This book makes a real contribution to strengthening positive and constructive diplomacy, by providing a careful comparative analysis of this subject, as well as the thesis of compatibility and complementarity between international diplomatic law and Islamic diplomatic law.
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A Quest for Complementarity in Divergent Legal Theories
Religion: An Anthropological View
This book is considered a classic anthropological analysis of religion from a pioneer in the field.
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Islam Innocent of the Patent
The book will try to convince researchers that it is better for humanity to adopt what the Sharia has laid out. For knowledge to be common, not monopolized, and in specific circumstances for it to be brought about by the Sharia if applied. We will explore the relationship between the current pollution and monopoly of knowledge.
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Democracy or Empowerment?
The Science of Hadith
Islam marked a watershed in the history of science for Arabs. This separation between the two eras, the before-and-after of the advent of Islam, was not due to scientific production; scientific production was based on the different methodologies governing the cognitive system—that is, the set of procedures, principles, and concepts that gave the Arab mind its own structure in writing, research, teaching, and learning.
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History, Philosophy, and Methodology Localization
Iran and Britain
This book attempts to shed light on British-Iranian relations, which date back to Iran’s signing of a treaty of defensive alliance with Britain in 1814 and to Iran’s emergence as a state of concern to the British administration in the region. The book aims to lay out the truth about Britain’s position on the Iranian Islamic Revolution, which greatly contributed to drawing the most important features of bilateral relations between the two countries.
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The Formation of the Modern Persian Gulf
The Other in the Islamic Society
Other’s image was ordained in the Islamic heritage during the medieval, which was formulated from a cultural domain saturated with a homogeneous belief system, differed altogether from the system of the other، which proved that its cultural, historical and civilizational reality has been shaped proving itself only by expulsion, exclusion, and defamation of the other, unlike what It was in the Islamic society during long periods of its history.
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Shari’a and Modernization
The Arab countries have lived under Islamic rule for many decades, and since their conquest, their people have been abide to the Sharia represented by the Qur’an and the Sunnah and the provisions that were derived from its using the principles of jurisprudence, its controls, and its overall rules set by Muslim jurists who inspired the solutions from their precedents, the precedents of their ancestors, and from Similarities and isotopes, if they did not find what they need In the Book of God and the Sunnah of His ProphePBUH. They have exerted so much effort in this respect, and have classified in the fundamentals of litigation, judgements and proceedings what all previous nations have been unable to come up with. They proceeded in rooting theories that contemporary jurists boast of rooting and mention its in their books. They become great to the extent that they were a reference for Europeans in human rights issues and legal dilemmas as they Freak out whenever needed to find the final word on what matters to and preoccupies them among Muslims.
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Ink and Paper
Discussing reading and writing is both a difficult and an easy task, both mellow and rough. The difficulty does not lie in the topic or idea of a text, rather in the public’s rejection of advice when it comes to reading and writing. This could be due to how chaotic this advice sometimes is: it has become its own field of fatwas, teaching, and invocation. Few read and many advise. Many write and few master.
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Insights and Thoughts on Writing: Facts, Illusions, and Myths
What is Power?
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life.
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Miraculous Shari‘a
The law of any nation is a mirror of its material, intellectual and social conditions, and if the law is supposed to be the source of happiness and revival of every society, as the philosophers of law say, it will not be so unless it fulfills their cultural, intellectual and material requirements and aspirations that are dictated by the nature of their religious and social environment, rather it will be a pity on them, and it will be a source of their misery and suffering, not their happiness and revival, for correct legislation is the result of the nation’s spirit and the result of its traditions and customs, since everyone is captive to his religious and social values and principles.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories to create this chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal follows Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the progress of the plague through London. Here we see a city transformed: some of its streets suspiciously empty and some overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering. And every living citizen he meets has a horrifying story that demands to be heard.
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Islam and the Politics of Secularism
This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Through detailed analysis of both official documents and the writings of the intellectuals who contributed to reforms in the Empire
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The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century
Crescent of Sovereignty
This book aims at articulating and discussing the basics and essentials of the Islamic Theory of International Relations (ITIR) and its principals, and elucidating its grandeur by detecting how it administrates the global political sphere in Islam, and unveiling its explanatory motives behind the political actions, which are religious and promotive.
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Islam and Ordering of the World
Latin and Islamic Historiography of the Crusades
The First Crusade has produced more historical material than did any other event in the early Middle Ages. Because the participants of the Crusade were proud of their work, and their desire to retain a memory of their actions was severe.
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A Comparative Study of William of Tyre (1130: 1185) and Ibn al-Athīr (1160: 1232)
(The Jewish National Fund (JNF
The establishment of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in 1901 has been a turning point in the history of the Zionist movement. It played a prominent role in serving the Zionist project, as it was the most important Zionist institution and the cornerstone of the Jewish national home project
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and its Role in the Zionist Movement in Palestine 1901: 1948
Ulema in Politics
Ulema occupy a prominent position in Islamic society. The degree of their influence varied from one era to another according to the diversity of prevailing political and social conditions and the extent of their scientific horizon. Hence, great names have emerged among them in social life and political events, of which the Indian subcontinent had a great share
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A Study Relating to the Political Activities of the Ulema in the South-Asian Subcontinent from 1556 to 1947
History of Science among the Ottoman Turks
The history of science represents an important aspect of the history of nations, and reveals to the learner the truth about science and its secrets. Therefore, it is considered an important topic in modern writings, as its study is a study of the development of civilization and the civilization production of nations through which bridges are established between the past and present to recognize the human development process and build the present and future of nations.
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Jews in the Ottoman State until the End of the Nineteenth Century
Muslims have never treated Jews in a racial manner and the Ottoman State was not an exception. When Europe had expelled Jews after the establishment of the Inquisition, they had only two options: either Christianization or emigration. The main emigration was to the Ottoman State after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, and from Portugal in 1496.
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Education in the Ottoman State
The Ottoman State had a significant undeniable influence on the history of Muslims. The Ottoman madrasa played a prominent role in establishing the state culturally, through which the civilizational dimension of sultans and governors was demonstrated. Since its rise until Sultan Al-Qanooni, madrasas provided the state with scholars, judges and officials who had a great effect on managing the affairs of the state and tightening its control over vast areas of the world. Thus, scientific and administrative life in the Ottoman State was closely related to madrasas. Only madrasa alumni were allowed to take over scientific and judicial positions in the state.
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A Study of Madrasas’ Role Since the Rise of the State until the Death of Sultan Suleiman Al-Qanooni
Quranic Philosophy
Arkan Centre for studies, research and publishing preferred taking care of this small book in size but worthy of value to broaden its impact scope by translating it to English for the first time. The aim is not to defend Islam or deny the charges, yet to signify the momentum of thinking and enhancing minds, root for knowledge and speech culture and encourage ripe intercultural operations between Arabic language and the rest of world languages
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Formulating Authentic Concepts of Umma’s Sciences
The concepts are authentic as they do not suffice with borrowing their connotations from western sources only, yet solicit those connotations from Arabic lexicon, Quran, Sunnah and Islamic heritage in addition to western sources. Hence, connotations are broader and more authentic.
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