What was the pen name for a series of Islamic creationist books that were sent to thousands of  American scientists, members of Congress and science museums in 2007?
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Adnan Oktar Adnan Oktar (born 2 February 1956), also known as Harun Yahya, is a Turkish author as well as an Islamic creationist. In 2007, he sent thousands of unsolicited copies of his book, "The Atlas of Creation", which advocates Islamic creationism, to American scientists, members of Congress, and science museums. Oktar runs two organizations of which he is also the Honorary President: "Bilim Araştırma Vakfı" (BAV, literally, "Science Research Foundation", established 1990), which promotes creationism and "Milli Değerleri Koruma Vakfı" (literally, "National Values Preservation Foundation", established 1995) which works domestically on a variety of moral issues.
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The Atlas of Creation The Atlas of Creation (or, in Turkish, "Yaratılış Atlası") is a series of creationist books written by Adnan Oktar under the pen name "Harun Yahya". Oktar published volume 1 of "The Atlas of Creation" with Global Publishing, Istanbul, Turkey in October 2006, volumes 2 and 3 followed in 2007, and volume 4 in 2012. The first volume is over 800 pages long. The Turkish original was translated into English, German, Chinese, French, Dutch, Italian, Urdu, Hindi and Russian.
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Utyz Imyani, Gabdrakhim In the Islamic world is also known as a scientist, recover lost fragments of ancient Quran (see Samarkand Kufic Quran).
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Zaghloul El-Naggar Zaghloul El Naggar (Arabic: زغلول النجار‎ ‎ , ] ) is an Egyptian geologist, Muslim scholar, and Muslim author. The main theme of El-Naggar's books has been science in Quran; his philosophy of science is blended with religion. He left his academic career to become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.
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ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt, The Wonders of Creation (Arabic: عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات‎ ‎ , meaning "Marvels of creatures and Strange things existing") is book in Arabic and an important work of cosmography by Zakariya al-Qazwini who was born in Qazwin year 600 (AH)/1203.
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Murtada Sharif 'Askari Sayyid Murtada Sharif 'Askari (Persian: سید مرتضی شریف عسکری‎ ‎ ; 4 May 1914 – 16 September 2007), known as Allamah 'Askari, was a Shiite scholar and a neo-religious thinker. He took a scholarly approach to the history of Islam. "150 So-Called Companions", "Recourse to the Prophet and Consecration to his Relict", and "Abdullah ibn Saba and Other Historical Legends" are some of his more significant books.
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Mazhar Mahmood Qurashi Mazhar Mahmood Qurashi (Urdu: مظهر محمود قريشى; b. 8 October 1925 – 21 November 2011; SI), best known as M. M. Qureshi was a Pakistani physicist and an Islamic scholar who was educated in Lahore and Manchester. He earned prestige and notability after authoring important publication on Islam and science and abstract theories to explain the religious phenomenon and events, explained in Koran— a Holy book of Muslims.
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Nasser Khalili Nasser David Khalili (Persian: ناصر داوود خلیلی‎ ‎ , born 18 December 1945) is a British-Iranian scholar, collector, and philanthropist based in London. He is a British citizen. Khalili is the founder of the Khalili Collections, which is said to include the finest and most comprehensive collection of Islamic art in private hands. Khalili was born in Iran, before leaving the country to study in the United States. He graduated from Queens College, City University of New York in 1974 with a computer science degree. He later received a PhD degree in Islamic art in 1988, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, writing his thesis on Islamic lacquer.
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Nick Matzke Nicholas J. Matzke is the former Public Information Project Director at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and served an instrumental role in NCSE's preparation for the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial. One of his chief contributions was discovering drafts of "Of Pandas and People" which demonstrated that the term "intelligent design" was later substituted for "creationism". This became a key component of Barbara Forrest's testimony. After the trial he co-authored a commentary in "Nature Immunology", was interviewed on Talk of the Nation, and was profiled in "Seed magazine" as one of nine "revolutionary minds".
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Bilal Philips Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, (born Dennis Bradley Philips, 1946) is a Jamaican-born Canadian Muslim teacher, speaker, and author who lives in Qatar. He appears on Peace TV, which is a 24-hour Islamic satellite TV channel. He considers himself a Salafi who advocates a traditional, literal form of Islam.
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Kafir Kafir (Arabic: كافر‎ ‎ "kāfir "; plural كفّار "kuffār "; feminine كافرة "kāfirah ") is an Arabic term (from the root K-F-R "to cover") meaning "unbeliever", or "disbeliever". The term alludes to a person who rejects or disbelieves in God and the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and denies the dominion and authority of God; or otherwise does not heed the beliefs and prescriptions held by the religion of Islam. It is used as a derogatory term. Unbelief is called "kufr". "Kafir" is sometimes used interchangeably with "mushrik" (مشرك , those who commit polytheism), another type of religious wrongdoer mentioned frequently in the Quran and Islamic works. The practice of declaring another self-professed Muslim a kafir is known as "takfir". The person who denies the existence of a creator is called "Dahriya".
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Stephen Paster Stephen Paul Paster (born 1949) is an American from Los Angeles, California who has been widely alleged to be a member of the Jamaat ul-Fuqra.
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John Cornwell (writer) John Cornwell (born 1940) is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is also, since 2009, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Leicester) in 2011. He was nominated for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for best UK memoir 2007 ("Seminary Boy") and shortlisted Specialist Journalist of the Year (science, medicine in "Sunday Times Magazine"), British Press Awards 2006. He won the Science and Medical Network Book of the Year Award for "Hitler’s Scientists", 2005; and received the Independent Television Authority-Tablet Award for contributions to religious journalism (1994). In 1982 he won the Gold Dagger Award Non-Fiction (1982) for "Earth to Earth". He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public understanding of science. In addition to his books on the relationship between science, ethics and the humanities, he has written widely on the Catholic Church and the modern papacy.
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A. I. Sabra Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924-2013) was a professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam. He died December 18, 2013. Sabra provided English translation and commentary for Books I-III of Ibn al-Haytham's seven book "Kitab al-Manazir" ("Book of Optics"), written in Arabic in the 11th century.
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Nomad: From Islam to America Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (first published May 18, 2010) is a memoir by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a sequel to her "New York Times" bestseller "Infidel". Released in the United States by Free Press, it deals in greater depth than the earlier book with certain aspects of the author's childhood in Somalia, Kenya and Saudi Arabia, and in particular with her family, as well as with her exile from the Netherlands and her present home with the American Enterprise Institute in the United States. The book is highly critical of Islam and the multiculturalism which the author sees as enabling its extremism, and makes the controversial case that moderate Christian churches should seek actively to convert Muslim believers. The book has been praised by Christopher Hitchens, John Lloyd, and Richard Dawkins.
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Rumi Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎ ‎ ), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى ), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا , "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی , "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States.
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Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri (Persian: حکیم ایرانشهری‎ ‎ ) was a 9th-century Persian philosopher, mathematician, natural scientist, historian of religion, astronomer and author. According to traditional sources, he is the first figure in the wider Muslim world to be associated with philosophy after the advent of Islam.
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Ibn Majah Abū ʻAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʻī al-Qazwīnī (Arabic: ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني‎ ‎ ; fl. 9th century CE) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, "Sunan Ibn Mājah".
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Aniconism in Islam Aniconism is a proscription in Islam against the creation of images of sentient beings. The most absolute proscription is of images of God in Islam, followed by depictions of Muhammad, and then Islamic prophets and the relatives of Muhammad, but the depiction of all humans and non-human animals is discouraged in the "hadith" and by the long tradition of Islamic authorities, especially Sunni ones. This has led to Islamic art being dominated by Islamic geometric patterns, calligraphy, the barely representational foliage patterns of the arabesque, and the 'half-formed' figures (eg. wings without a body) of Indonesian art; but figurative art still has a strong tradition, especially on a small scale in private works for the home or palace. The proliferation of photographic and filmed images today has led to controversy, with some religious authorities stating, for example, that all television is un-Islamic, but this is not a widely held position.
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Muhammed al-Ahari Muhammad al-Ahari is a widely published writer. He has published more than60sixty articles in Muslim American magazines and journals including the "Message", the "Minaret", Islamsko Misao, "Islamic Horizons", "Indian Times", "Fountain Magazine", "al-Basheer", "New Era", "Svijest", "Muslim Journal", "Muslim Prison Brotherhood Newsletter", "al-Talib", "The Light", "Moorish Science Monitor", and "Amexem Times and Seasons". Muhammed served as the editor for the following publications: Meditations from the Bilali Muhammad Research Society (Charleston, S.C., 1988), the "Moorish Science Monitor" from the Moorish Orthodox Church (two issues -- the Poetry Issue 2004 and the Circle Seven Commentary issue 2005), and the ICCGC Newsletter at the Islamic Cultural Center in Northbrook, Illinois (two issues in 2011 and still editor).
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Project Steve Project Steve is a list of scientists with the given name Stephen/Steven or a variation thereof (e.g., Stephanie, Stefan, Esteban, etc.) who "support evolution". It was originally created by the National Center for Science Education as a "tongue-in-cheek parody" of creationist attempts to collect a list of scientists who "doubt evolution," such as the Answers in Genesis' list of scientists who accept the biblical account of the Genesis creation narrative or the Discovery Institute's "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism". The list pokes fun at such endeavors to make it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!" It also honors Stephen Jay Gould.
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Abdul Hamid AbuSulayman Dr. Abdul Hamid Ahmad AbuSulayman (born 1936) is an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, thinker, educationist and author of many books and articles on the subject of Islam and Islamic reform, especially in the fields of thought and education. He holds an M.A. from Cairo University and a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. He was the Founding President of International Islamic University Malaysia (1988–99) and is at present the Chairman of the Board and trustee of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Washington DC.