Lifelong Learners

In the last centuries, the Muslim world has been witnessing one of the biggest destruction in its history. Islamic countries have been occupied by western ideas both spiritually and materially. By the way, these countries lost their powers politically, economically, and socially. Unfortunately, at this time there is not an Islamic country -or rather countries that have the Muslim public- who has the right to speak in the global world nearly in all areas. The current structure of Islamic countries reveals us demanding a new solution which is explained in the book; titled Islamization of Knowledge. This book emphasizes the recent main problems of Ummah from several angels and explains possible solutions as a structure that is shaped in the authors' mentality. The author says there are some stages to deal with this problem and there are three main steps to save the Ummah from the present situation. Firstly, after recognizing the problem as said above, all Muslim students must be ...

As we know, all sciences are good for everybody and it must be objective to create a common knowledge legacy of humanity. Therewith, objectivity is one of the most important principles of science. ' Scientific objectivity expresses the idea that the claims, methods, and results of science are not, or should not be influenced by particular perspectives, value commitments, community bias or personal interests, to name a few relevant factors' [1] . But now or before, can we say this statement is valid for anthropology or all of the social sciences which are based on western ideology? Anthropology with its other name -the study of men- as a general definition helps us to understand ourselves through understanding other cultures.   In western ideology, it is claimed that societies follow the social development stages in which western people are at the top of it. It means the western people are an example of human perfection. Undoubtedly, this theory was inspired by Dar...

The Islamic world has made many achievements in its history. While the Europen world was in the middle ages, the Islamic world pioneered some progress and innovations, however, this circumstance did not continue. This process starts with geographical discoveries, continued with renaissance, reform, and the Industrial Revolution in Europe. All of this turned European world which is in darkness into illuminated and modern. While everything went well for Europeans, the Islamic world began to go ahead in the opposite direction. After that Muslims began to blame themselves in terms of not being religious and not understanding the Quran well. Initially, they didn't care about the developments which are under the control of European, Muslims tried to live “ True Islam ” which was experienced over 1400 years ago. Parallel to this, while Europe was leading new technological innovations, the Muslim world had rather not to do anything but focused on their internal problems. Europe starts ...