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  Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

  أبو حامد الغزالي
  
  Muslim theologian and philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali of Persia worked to systematize Sufism, Islamic mysticism, and in The Incoherence of the Philosophers (1095) argued the incompatibility of thought of Plato and Aristotle with Islam.
  
  Born in 1058, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī ranked of the most prominent and influential Sunni jurists of his origin.
  
  Islamic tradition considers him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community"). His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islam).
  
  Al-Ghazali believe

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  Franz Kafka

  Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
  
  Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
  
  His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
  
  Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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  Mikhail Naimy

  Mikha'il Na'ima (also spelled Mikhail Naimy; Arabic: ميخائيل نعيمة) (b.1889 in Mount Sannine in modern day Lebanon, d. 1988) was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.
  
  He wrote 99 books, including drama, essays, poetry, criticism, short stories and biography.
  
  Among his best known books is the Book of Mirdad, a mystical text first published in Lebanon in 1948, which was translated into English and published in London in 1962.
  
  The mystic Osho had this to say about The Book of Mirdad. He said, "There are millions of books in the world, but 'The Book of Mirdad' stands out far above any book in existence."
  
  Mr. Naimy was a biographer and longtime associate of Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese writer, artist, poet, and philosopher and he pe

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  Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi

  ولد عبد الرحمن الكواكبي بن أحمد في عام 1854 ، وعندما بلغ السادسة من عمره توفيت والدته ، فأرسله أبوه إلى خالته بأنطاكية ، فحضنته وعلمته القراءة والكتابة واللغة التركية ، ثم عاد إلى حلب ليتابع دراسته في المدرسة الكواكبية ، وكان أبوه مديراً لها ومدرساً فيها ، فتعلم مبادئ الدين واللغة العربية . ثم تلقى العلوم العصرية الرياضية والطبيعية وأتقن اللغتين التركية والفارسية تكلماً وكتابة . وكانت صحف استانبول تصل إلى حلب وفيها خير المترجمات عن العلوم والآداب الغربية ، فراح يعب منها حتى استقام لسانه واتسع أفقه .
  
  عندما بلغ الثانية والعشرين من عمره عين محرراً غير رسمي لجريدة فرات ، وهي الجريدة الرسمية التي كانت تصدرها الحكومةباللغتين العربية والتركية ، وبعد عام أصبح محرراً رسمياً لهذه الجريدة براتب شهري قدره 800 قرش . عام 1878 أنشأ الكواكبي جريدة الشهباء و

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  Alphonse Karr

  Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his aunt Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabile.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Youssef Ziedan

  (Arabic: يوسف زيدان)
  
  Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
  Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.
  
  Awards and Grants:
  - 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation
  - Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-‘Aza’im Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995.
  - ‘Abdul-Hamid Shuman Prize in the field of social studies in 1996 for his book Fawā’ih al-Jamāl wa Fawā’ih al Jalāl- ‘Fragrance of Beauty & Revelations of the Magestic’ by Nijm al-Dīn Kubrā.
  - A special Award from the International Academy of Learning in 1996 for his academic corpus.

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  Alija Izetbegović

  Lawyer and politician Alija Izetbegovic served as president of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 2000.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alija_I...
  

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  Anton Chekhov

  Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
  
  Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
  
  "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867

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  Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

  أبو حامد الغزالي
  
  Muslim theologian and philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali of Persia worked to systematize Sufism, Islamic mysticism, and in The Incoherence of the Philosophers (1095) argued the incompatibility of thought of Plato and Aristotle with Islam.
  
  Born in 1058, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī ranked of the most prominent and influential Sunni jurists of his origin.
  
  Islamic tradition considers him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community"). His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islam).
  
  Al-Ghazali believe

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  Ghassan Kanafani

  Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني‎‎)
  
  Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
  
  Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.
  
  After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began wri

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  Bothayna Al-Essa

  Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature.

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  Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi

  Filibe doğumlu olan Ahmed Hilmi bu nedenle Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi olarak anılmıştır. Babasından dolayı da Şehbenderzâde olarak anılmıştır. İlk eğitimini Filibe'nin müftüsünden alan Ahmed Hilmi, daha sonra ailesiyle birlikte İzmir'e taşınmıştır. Eğitimini Galatasaray Lisesi'nde tamamladıktan sonra Düyûn-ı Umûmiyye'de çalışmaya başlamış, Beyrut'a atanmıştır. Siyasi bir mesele nedeniyle Beyrut'tan Mısır'a kaçmış, 1901'de tekrar İstanbul'a dönmüş fakat Fizan'a sürülmüştür. Tasavvufa olan ilgisi büyümüş, özellikle Vahdet-i Vücud (وحدة الوجود) düşüncesine inanmaya başlamıştır. Tasavvufi yönü fikirlerini büyük oranda etkilemiştir.
  Meşrutiyetin ilanıyla 1908'de İstanbul'a dönmüştür. Burada İttihat-ı İslam adlı bir haftalık gazete çıkarmaya başlamış fa

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  Francis Crick

  Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004), was a British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material" .
  
  Crick is widely known for use of the term "central dogma" to summarize an idea that genetic information flow in cells is essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein. Crick was an important theoretical molecular biologist and played an important role in research relat

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  Ibn ʿArabi

  Note to arabic readers : For the original arabic version of the books, check "other editions" in the book that interests you)
  
  Universally known by the title of "Muhyi al-Din" (The Reviver of the Religion) and "al-Shaykh al-Akbar" (The Greatest Shaykh) Ibn 'Arabī (Arabic: ابن عربي‎) (July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-`Arabī al-Hāṭimī al-Ṭā'ī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الحاتمي الطائي).
  
  Muhammad ibn al-Arabi and his family moved to Seville when he was eight years old. In 1200 CE, at the age of thirty-five, he left Iberia for good, intending to make the hajj to Mecca. He lived in Mecca for some three years, wher

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  Christine de Pizan

  Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1363–c.1434) was a writer and analyst of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes that were prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts. De Pizan completed forty-one pieces during her thirty-year career (1399–1429). She earned her accolade as Europe’s first professional woman writer (Redfern 74). Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical techniques that critically challenged renowned male writers such as Jean de Meun who, to Pizan’s dismay, incorporated misogynist beliefs within their literary works.
  
  In recent decades, de Pizan's work has been returned to prominence by the efforts of scholars such as Charity Cannon Willard and Earl Jeffr

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  Richard McGregor

  Richard McGregor is a senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute.

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  Kenneth Rexroth

  Kenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist.
  
  He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, and disliked the association, he was dubbed the "Father of the Beats" by Time magazine.
  
  Largely self-educated, Rexroth learned several languages and translated poems from Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic themes and forms.
  
  Rexroth died in Santa Barbara, California, on June 6, 1982. He had spent his final years translating Japanese and Chinese women poets, as well as promoting the work of female poets in America

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  Toshihiko Izutsu

  Toshihiko Izutsu was a university professor and author of many books on Islam and other religions. He taught at the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic studies at Keio University in Tokyo, the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran, and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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  William C. Chittick

  is a philosopher, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic cosmology.

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  Hatem al-Haj

  Dr. Hatem al-Haj is Dean of the Sharia Academy of America and a member of the Fatwa Committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA). He holds a PhD in Comparative Fiqh and a Masters in Islamic Law. He is the author of many published articles on Islamic topics.
  Dr. al-Haj’s website, www.drhatemalhaj.com, is a useful resource for information on Islam and topics of interest to new Muslims, young Muslims, and Muslims living in non-Muslim societies.

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  Michel Lacroix

  Michel Lacroix is a French philosopher and writer ، born on December 12 , 1946.
  
  A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud , he is a graduate of Philosophy, Doctor of State and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Cergy-Pontoise . He is the author of a State Thesis on "L'idée de politesse dans les manuels de bienséance (XIXème et XXème siècles)" whose chairman of the jury was Jean Guitton .
  
  He received the Grand Prix de philosophie from the Académie française and the Prix ​​Psychologies-Fnac 2009 for his essay " pour mieux vivre".
  

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  Heraclitus

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος,c.535 – c.475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".
  
  Heraclitus was famous for his insistence on ever-present change as being the fundamental essence of the universe, as stated in the famous saying, "No man ever steps in the same

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  Timothy Mitchell

  Professor
  
  Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
  
  Columbia University
  
  612 Kent Hall, Mail Code 3928
  1140 Amsterdam Ave.
  
  New York, NY 10027
  
  Tel: 212-854 5252
  Email: tm2421@columbia.edu
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Timothy Mitchell is a political theorist who studies the political economy of the Middle East, the political role of economics and other forms of expert knowledge, the politics of large-scale technical systems, and the place of colonialism in the making of modernity.
  
  Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received a first-class honours degree in History, Mitchell completed his Ph.D. in Politics and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 1984. He joined Columbia University in 2008 after teaching for twenty-five years at New Yor

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  Ahmad ibn Fadlān

  هو أحمد بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد البغدادي، عالم إسلامي من القرن العاشر الميلادي . كتب وصف رحلته كعضو في سفارة الخليفة العباسي إلى ملك الصقالبة (بلغار الفولجا)سنة 921 م.
  
  Ahmad ibn Fadlān ibn al-Abbās ibn Rāšid ibn Hammād (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد‎) was a 10th-century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars. His account is most known for providing a description of the Volga Vikings, including an eyewitness account of a ship burial. He provided descriptions for various other peoples, most notably Turkic peoples such as the Oghuzes, Pechenegs, Bashkirs, and Khazars.
  

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  Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi

  ولد عبد الرحمن الكواكبي بن أحمد في عام 1854 ، وعندما بلغ السادسة من عمره توفيت والدته ، فأرسله أبوه إلى خالته بأنطاكية ، فحضنته وعلمته القراءة والكتابة واللغة التركية ، ثم عاد إلى حلب ليتابع دراسته في المدرسة الكواكبية ، وكان أبوه مديراً لها ومدرساً فيها ، فتعلم مبادئ الدين واللغة العربية . ثم تلقى العلوم العصرية الرياضية والطبيعية وأتقن اللغتين التركية والفارسية تكلماً وكتابة . وكانت صحف استانبول تصل إلى حلب وفيها خير المترجمات عن العلوم والآداب الغربية ، فراح يعب منها حتى استقام لسانه واتسع أفقه .
  
  عندما بلغ الثانية والعشرين من عمره عين محرراً غير رسمي لجريدة فرات ، وهي الجريدة الرسمية التي كانت تصدرها الحكومةباللغتين العربية والتركية ، وبعد عام أصبح محرراً رسمياً لهذه الجريدة براتب شهري قدره 800 قرش . عام 1878 أنشأ الكواكبي جريدة الشهباء و

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  Antony Flew

  Antony Garrard Newton Flew (11 February 1923 – 8 April 2010) was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion.
  
  Flew was a strong advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until empirical evidence of a God surfaces. He also criticised the idea of life after death, the free will defence to the problem of evil, and the meaningfulness of the concept of God. In 2003 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. However, in 2004 he stated an allegiance to deism, more specifically a belief in the Aristotelian God, stating that in keeping his lifelong commitment to go where the evidence leads, he now believes in the exist

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  Ashvaghosha

  See also: Aśvaghoṣa

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  Marguerite van Geldermalsen

  Marguerite van Geldermalsen’s parents were from the Netherlands but she was born in New Zealand where she grew up on an orchard not far from Nelson. She graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1976.
  
  She married Mohammad Abdallah two years later, living with him in a cave in Petra. She ran a small clinic for the local people while Mohammad sold souvenirs. A project to remove inhabitants from the site culminated in their move to a red brick settlement in 1985 where she settled into village life and their children went to school.
  
  Mohammad’s health deteriorated and he died at the age of 50. Her children are grown and over the last couple of years she has had time to reminisce and work on the story of her unexpected life.
  
  

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  Cemal Kafadar

  Cemal Kafadar, halen Harvard Üniversitesi Ortadoğu Tarihi Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesi. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (İki Cihan Âresinde) adlı Osmanlı'nın kuruluş düzenini anlattığı 1995 tarihli bir kitabı bulunmaktadır.

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  Joe Queenan

  Joe Queenan is a humorist, critic and author from Philadelphia who graduated from Saint Joseph's University. He has written for numerous publications, such as Spy Magazine, TV Guide, Movieline, The Guardian and the New York Times Book Review. He has written eight books, including Balsamic Dreams, a scathing critique of the Baby Boomers, Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, a tour of low-brow American pop culture and Imperial Caddy, a fairly scathing view of Dan Quayle and the American Vice-Presidency.
  
  Queenan's work is noted for his caustic wit.
  
  

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  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is the most important and influential Islamic thinker in the modern age. An accomplished Islamic jurist and scholar, he is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches Islamic law, Immigration, Human Rights, International and National Security Law. Dr. Abou El Fadl previously taught Islamic law at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, Yale Law School, and Princeton University. He holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.), University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and Princeton University (M.A./Ph.D.).
  
  A high-ranking shaykh, Dr. Abou El Fadl also received formal training in Islamic jurisprudence in Egypt and Kuwait.
  
  Dr. Abou El Fadl is a world-renowned expert in Islamic law and an American lawy

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  Ramsay Wood

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  Ramsay Wood is the author of two sui generis modern novels which aim — with inter-connected frame-story narratives — to capture the ancient (pre-literate) oral story-listening drama of multicultural animal fables mimed and declaimed along the Silk Road since the time of the Buddha.
  
  His two books blend The Jatakas Tales, The Panchatantra and the brief (fourth century BCE) role of Alexander the Great's Hellenization legacy in "bringing the Aesopian tradition to North India and Central Asia".
  
  Wood's Kalila and Dimna Vol 1 — Fables of Friendship and Betrayal was first published by Knopf in 1980 as Selected Fables of Bidpai with an Introduction by Doris Le

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  İsmet Özel

  İsmet Özel, şair ve yazar.
  Bir süre Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nde öğrenim gördükten sonra, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı’ndan mezun oldu. 18 yıl Devlet Konservatuvarı’nda Fransızca okutmanlığı yaptı. Ataol Behramoğlu'yla birlikte Halkın Dostları dergisini kurdu ve yönetti. 1963’ten itibaren şiirleri yayımlanmaya başladı. 1974’te düşünsel ve ruhsal bir değişim yaşayarak yazı hayatına İslami düşünce çerçevesinde devam etti. Uzun yıllar çeşitli gazetelerde köşe yazarlığı yaptı. 2005’te Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği deneme ve üstün hizmet ödülünü kazandı. 9 şiir, 22 deneme, söyleşi, mektup ve 5 çeviri kitabına imza attı.
  1978 yılında kaleme aldığı Üç Mesele (Teknik, Medeniyet, Yabancılaşma) en önemli kitaplarından biridir. 2007 yıl

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  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpiko della miˈrandola]; 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the “Hermetic Reformation."

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  Fadi Azzam

  Fadi Azzam (Arabic: فادي عزام) is a Syrian journalist and fiction writer.
  He studied Arabic at Damascus University and graduated in 1998. He now lives and works in the United Arab Emirates.
  His first collection of short stories "Thahtaniat" was published in March 2010.
  His debut novel Sarmada has been translated into English.

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