CM16: Turkey Short Stories

CM16: Turkey Short StoriesTahir Abbas is captivated by the complexity of Turkish politics and culture. Ahmet T. Kuru is unimpressed by the authoritarian tendencies of the current regime. Edip Asaf Bekaroglu struggles with the ambiguity of Turkish secularism, Sophia Pandya observes the battle between a Gazi warrior and a Sufi mystic, Yusuf Sarfati debates the headscarf issue, Charles Allen Scarboro takes us on a memorable tour of his Istanbul neighbourhood, Melek Saral

and Rahul Jayaram relates the heart-wrenching story of the Indian labourer who escapes Saudi Arabia by hiding in the aeroplane toilet

He then adds to this collection fourteen metaphors for this world that illustrate its perfidious nature

Between our heart and mind – Subhanallah

and the overwhelming mercy that comes with devotion

running no more than five pages

Marvine Howe meets the new Muslims of Iberia

A new paradigm for education: At a time when secular systems dominate and values are often sidelined

The niyāba of those who preceded him was

the Two Worlds

Know that the Messenger of God is fī kum (Q 49:7)

the author approaches them not merely as ritual obligations

Mulay al-‘Arabi al-Darqawi al-Hasani