December 12, 2012

Book Review: The Messenger of God

Dr. Vitaliy Sheremet*

This introduction by me as a professor of Oriental Studies might be seen as an incentive to attract attention, but I hope that the reader will welcome this book by Muhammed Fethullah Gülen from the very first pages.

Book Review: Essentials of the Islamic Faith

Jay Willoughby

Essentials of the Islamic Faith by Fethullah Gulen
The author [Fethullah Gulen], one of Turkey's most respected Islamic scholars, discusses Islam's core beliefs. After giving brief summaries of traditional arguments for God's Existence and Unity, Gülen analyzes modern theories related to nature, natural laws, and causes, as well as matter and chance. Supporting his arguments with accounts of scientific experiments, he also appeals to common sense by asking if any person or thing can be created without an author or by itself.