Editor's Desk
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Ever since I read Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Peter D. Kramer’s Listening to Prozac I am wondering if Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft and the like wonder drugs that help millions of people regain their self-esteem can also be employed in infusing a creative confidence in the Muslim mind. As Prozac or fluoxetine works as a neurotransmitter, it effectively increases the level of Serotonin in the brain, the low level of which is said to be…
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Insight
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Dialogue with Muslims: Possible, or pipe dream?
At a time when the greatest threat facing the Jewish people and, indeed, the entire world, is from Islamic extremism — its ideological totalitarianism, its use of terror and suicide…
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Progressive Thinking In Contemporary Islam
1. Introductory background: Islamic renewal It seems sensible to start by shedding light on the background context and then to define the broader framework within which the “progressive thinking” in…
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Faith and Investment
Faith gives meaning to the world in which we live and to life itself. It answers for us such questions as who are we, wherefrom and whereto? Without faith it…
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