Ahmet Özcan

First Publication: www.haber10.com, 2010 ‘How far we were from the Tigris Though we were born so near it The Tigris, from foams of its lower course Gave birth to a city; that is Baghdad, your country Baghdad; this, my brother, is

Note: This article was originally published on the website www.haber10.com in 2007 and was later included in the author’s book Teolojinin Jeopolitiği. A SHARED STATE, A SHARED HOMELAND, AND A SHARED NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS In ancient times, armies would keep cities under

The essence of an open, libertarian, law-based state and society is free and strong individuals. The path to liberation lies in replacing the concept of a sacred-king god with the understanding of Allah as ‘a friend and source of mercy’ as introduced

A Muslim is the master of money, not its servant. Religious capital in Türkiye has produced a new type of bourgeoisie with an Islamic tone but a lumpen character. Türkiye’s sociology does not yet possess the tools to regulate religious capital. Therefore,

The Westerners, who harnessed historiography in this way to serve the ideological aims of imperialism, developed a crippled mode of thinking that conceals the whole truth and fragments it into disconnected pieces. For example, religion, philosophy, and art are both the cause

Ali Shariati was a qualitative level of consciousness. At that level, rightism, leftism, Islamism, and nationalism lose their meaning, and the search for humanity, existence, history, justice, freedom, and truth gains a universal significance. He spoke to Muslims, atheists, Christians, and Buddhists

The rise of Islam as a political force, for the first time in history, in a way that also united the asabiyyah (solidarity) of Arab societies, buried both great powers in history in such a way that they could never rise again

Against the attempt to return the world to paganism, it is necessary to resist by renewing the liberating message of the divine religion. Challenging all forms of idolatry, all enslaving political and economic systems, all objects, fetishes, and symbols posing as false

Türkiye should support Iran’s return to its genuine Muslim roots and should be cautious against the alternative. Any development or outcome that leads Iran, an exceptional part of the Islamic Ummah and civilization, to continue falling victim to the devils of the

Is Religion an End in Itself or a Means? This question can also be phrased as follows: When an Islamic movement or a political group that refers to Islam comes to power in the Islamic world, why do news agencies and newspapers