I like to make an etymological introduction to the concept I am going to write about. The reason is that language is an expression…
Alper Tanca
Alper Tanca
A graduate of Saint Joseph's and I.U. Political Sciences, she is currently pursuing her master's degree at the Institute of Sufi Studies at I.U. Curious by nature, traveler by family, entrepreneur and lover of creation. A student of Sufism who continues his journey on both the worldly and spiritual planes, sometimes on foot and sometimes on two wheels. A person who admires the human being and his capacity to get into trouble, a person full of wonder, trying to know himself.
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Many years ago, when I was still a raw fruit, I used to spend summers in Türkbükü, Bodrum. Türkbükü had just become famous at…
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The other day, a friend of mine shared an article about “the trend of not responding and not returning in the art world”, and…
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Years ago a friend asked me, “If you were not who you are now, who would you like to be?” I mumbled something about…
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A dream I had many years ago is still vividly before my eyes. At that time, Trump was in power in the US. In…
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I am currently studying Safiye Erol’s works for my thesis. She was a great writer who lived between 1902 and 1964. You can always…
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If God is infinitely good, why is there evil? What is the purpose of these problems and troubles that seem to hinder our happiness?…
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“English under (standing) and German ver (stehe) mean to understand. Standing and stehe come from the root ‘to stand’. So we need to stop…
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All major spiritual teachings and philosophy have a common motto: “He who knows himself knows God.” In Islamic Sufism, this is “He who knows…