Post-Modern Relativist Challenges on Islamic Epistemology

On Post-Modern Cryptography

This essay relates to a recent article of Koblitz&Menezes that “criticizes several typical ‘provable security’ results” and argues that the “theorem-proof paradigm of theoretical mathematics is often of limited relevance” to cryptography. Although it should be obvious that these claims are utterly wrong, we undertake articulating this triviality. In particular, we point out some of the fundamen...

Republican Epistemology and Islamic Discourses in Turkey in the 1990s*

In the course of the past decade, the question of identity in the Turkish context has acquired an increasing significance. With the emergence of trends which placed the question of identity outside of the official realm, the people who live on this land began to stagger between local and national as well as traditional and modern identities. This has paved the way for the explosion of multiple ...

Islamic Architecture and Its Challenges

Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

With the development of personalized and globalized technologies, a discussion regarding how and why virtue epistemology should be an essential part of post-industrial ethical analysis on augmented technologies and use of robotics in the global age becomes crucial. These globalized technologies in the form of either game apps (i.e., Pokémon Go) or robotics like drones become through the Interne...

“islamic Financial Services Industry: the European Challenges”

What is Islamic Finance? There are at least three characteristics which makes it different from the conventional debt finance. First, it prohibits riba or interest, or in other words a fixed and pre-determined rate of return to be paid on the deposits or to be received from the borrowers. The rate of return is variable and determined by the profit and loss that the bank makes during a given per...