I really don’t understand why humans always have to be sooo busy running around doing something, talking to someone or planing to leave the house in a hurry. I think we have all the time in the world and we should sleep more, okay, you can get up at night and stroll around the house and the garden a bit. But then in the morning I try to be really quiet so that it seems I also slept all...
Interview with Hürriyet Daily News
The public face of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims, a key player in the Gezi protests, says the secular demonstrating youth are interested in their libertarian interpretation of Islam. A new understanding of religion could be born out of the Gezi spirit, according to theologian İhsan Eliaçık. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has portrayed the Gezi Park protesters as “marauders” with no respect for...
The Anti-Capitalist Muslims – The Economist
With his scruffy beard, baggy trousers, plastic slippers and prayer beads, Ihsan Eliacik seems the archetypal conservative Muslim. He is anything but that. At a gathering of anti-government protesters in Istanbul’s secular Besiktas neighbourhood he was applauded when he railed against Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after breaking the Ramadan fast, the Iftar (pictured), with a...
Living on a Prayer: in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, Protesters Try to Bridge the Religious Divide – Vocavit
Since the protests in Turkey began last week, thousands have camped out in central Istanbul, demonstrating against the government’s plan to tear down Gezi Park and replace it with a shopping mall and a replica of an Ottoman era military barracks. Most protesters are young and secular, but earlier this week, a group of religious anti-capitalists led by the Islamic theologian, Ihsan Eliacik, prayed...
Udon Love
Udon Noodles are my favorite noodles — and I especially love them in soups, maybe with soft tofu and some green veggies. And the really look beautiful in a photograph, too. Nisi non aenean scelerisque risus. Cum rhoncus? Penatibus non, nascetur eu. In et sagittis sed! Rhoncus vut risus magnis ut augue nec, dolor. Vel parturient nec auctor elementum placerat, magnis, placerat. Elit amet, in...
Japanese Food Inspirations
While traveling in Japan I just love to explore all the amazing book stores they have here. So loving everything about food, of course I also checked out all sorts of cook books and cook magazines, and there are a lot of them! Japanese people seem to love food and to love taking pictures of food as well. And everything is sooo beautifully arranged, it seems to me they are taking food photography...
Kur’an’da Kurban Ayetleri Haritası
Aşağıda Kur’an’da ‘kurban’ ile ilgili ayetlerin bir haritasını çıkardım. En çok bilinen meal (Diyanet) ile Kur’an’ın Arapçasını karşılaştırdım. Doğrular ve yanlışlar kendi araştırma ve bilgilerime göredir. Bizim işimizin “gönüller fethetmek” değil; “zihinler açmak” olduğunu hatırlatırım. Malum bu işin bedeli ağır, sabrı zor ve fakat meyvesi tatlıdır. Bakın ortaya nasıl bir sonuç çıktı. ***...
Garîb Gurebâ Bayramı
Hiç düşündünüz mü, Türkçe’de çok kullandığımız akraba, garp, gurbet, mağrib, garip, gureba, garibankelimeleri “kurban” ile neden aynı ses benzerliğine sahip? Dahası “Allah’ın garibi”, “Garip kuşun yuvasını Allah yapar” deyim ve atasözlerinin “kurban” ile ne gibi bir ilişkisi olabilir? İsmet Özel’in “Yargı kesin: acı duymak ruhun fiyakasıdır” demesi gibi söyleyeyim: “Yargı kesin: Bütün bunlar...
Fasting Against Capitalism
Interview with Ayten Turan Writer and philosopher. İhsan Eliacik was born on December 23, 1961 in Kayseri. He went to local schools in Kayseri and completed his high school education in 1980. He went to Erciyes University Theology School for a while and left to start his own independent career as an author. He worked at “The Last Tomorrow” magazine for four years and at “Word and Justice”...
New Zealand Beaches
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