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Nesil Publishing Group (previous name was Yeni Asya Publishing) has been in the area of publishing since 1968. Nesil continues to work with the motto “If Nesil did not exist, something would be always missing.”

Nesil is a publisher which tries to transmit global ideas, thoughts to everyone which are well-known and accepted by all humanity, in an environment where the world is just like a small village and civilizations exist in one pot.

Up to now, more than 2000 kinds of products have been produced. Company has served in lots of field from child books to encyclopedias, novels, articles, doctoral thesis, stories, essays, etc.

Nesil, Nesil Çocuk, Genç Nesil, Söz, Etkileşim, and Karakalem are the members of Nesil Publishing Group.


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Nesil Publishing Group (previous name was Yeni Asya Publishing) has been in the area of publishing since 1968. Nesil continues to work with the motto “If Nesil did not exist, something would be always missing.”

Nesil is a publisher which tries to transmit global ideas, thoughts to everyone which are well-known and accepted by all humanity, in an environment where the world is just like a small village and civilizations exist in one pot.

Up to now, more than 2000 kinds of products have been produced. Company has served in lots of field from child books to encyclopedias, novels, articles, doctoral thesis, stories, essays, etc.

Nesil, Nesil Çocuk, Genç Nesil, Söz, Etkileşim, and Karakalem are the members of Nesil Publishing Group.



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At the essence of every child is “the wonder of childhood” in which the adulthood of the child is embedded.

This wonder is known as a driving inner guide and it fights to shape the child’s personality and character step by step with a humble patience.

There are problems in child upbringing since the adult tries to shape a constrained personality without considering the precise inner mechanism in which “the wonder of childhood” is embedded.

In this book, you will find how to guide children without damaging their personality, character and ego.

In other words, you will come to understand the pedagogy of being yourself and by how this pedagogy yielded dynamic individuals such as Rumi, Dalai Lama and Abraham Lincoln based on their “wonder of childhood.”

The Wonder of Childhood

ADEM GÜNEŞ

These notes remind me the teaching period that I started long years ago and each note causes me to remind my dear students who have shining faces and they also remind me the questions they asked with their faithful hearts and pure spirits.

I want to talk with them in these lines and pages. I want them to keep asking me so I can answer them. Because they want to listen, understand and believe.

If this book serves for their religious belief only a little, I will be truly happy. I devote this book to all my students from the first to the last, for all my students, Ahmet, Mehmet, Ayşe and Fatma.

Our Teacher’s Notebook

VEHBİ VAKKASOĞLU



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What exactly is a path a “good human being” opened by a civil disobedience against the ruler-imposed description of “good citizen”? What are the practices of civil disobedience and which practices are more effective in any given case? What is the role of the practice of disobedience in the history and what is its equivalent today?

How is the sense of civil disobedience for Turkey in particular?

“Civil Disobedience” examines the historical and intellectual resources of resisting oppression, the basic elements and socio-political framework of civil disobedience and the issue of legitimacy with ac ic meticulousness and expertise.

Civil Disobedience

ŞÜKRÜ NİŞANCIIt is seen that behind the psychological problems in adulthood, there lies educational errors.

The aim of education is the wellbeing of a child. However, the education given to the child should be appropriate to the emotional development of the child.

Every child is special and each child’s emotional development is unique to that child.

The strongest part of the emotional education is the privacy education.

Since children learn how to live from their parents, how should parents give their children a sexual education appropriate to their age? Should it be given as it is done in the classical education by gathering all children together without minding the individual differences? Or should this education be one to one as it involves the most private emotions of the child?

Can children be protected from sexual abuse by telling them “Do not ever get close to anyone who wants to give you candies!” or should they develop a “Basic Reflex Response” to protect themselves from the dangers of the external world?

What are the differences between sexual education and privacy education?

In this book, Pedagogue Dr. Güneş answers these questions that are of critical concern to the emotional developments of children.

The Education Of Privacy For Children

ADEM GÜNEŞ



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While Turkey is in the process of ending a century of oppression and while the torch of freedom is being lit in the Arab world, a global operation was set into action.

Trying to manipulate the innocent aspects of Gezi Park in Istanbul, a coup was sought to be unleashed; whereas it was only to find success in Egypt.

The book Sixty Days that Brought the World to a Standstill, as is clear by the above introduction, intends to help its reader to better understand both today and the future in the light of the events of Gezi Park by analyzing the events that transpired there and their overflow.

Sixty Days that Brought the World to a Standstill

CEMİL ERTEM & MARKAR ESAYANThis book attemps to compare the methods used in Psychotherapy and Tasawwuf (Sufiism). More specifically, it seeks to find

the common points shared between the Western method of therapy and the Sufi method as well as where these two methods part ways. The Sufi and the Therapist attemps to do so in a convincing manner with the help of original sources.

The Sufi and the Therapist

ALİ RIZA BAYZAN



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Our idea about the universe is also a determinant for our idea about ourselves as a part of the universe. There is a huge gap between naturalist-atheist understanding which considers the universe as eternal and human-beings as existence by coincidence.

There is a huge gap between worldviews that are elicited by naturalist-atheist ideology which considers the universe as an eternal existence and living creatures and human-beings as coincidental beings, and by monotheist perception which sees the universe as a creation by God. This gap is so much important that constitutes rooted differences in perception of life, death, the purpose of life, ethics and many other essential issues. In this book, thence, it is discussed that which foundation is rational entailing difference in these most important issues of life, by means of modern science and philosophy.

Some questions that you can find answers in the book:

- What are the philosophical and theological consequences of the Big Bang Theory?

- Is evidence for design related to the law of entropy?

- Can the existence of laws of nature be explained without referring to the design phenomenon?

- What is the relationship of existence of mind and universe’s being understandable and evidence for design?

- Are infinite universes scenarios a threat to the claim that the universe and liveliness are designed?

To wake up before death!

As a need out of creation, human-being questions life, purpose of creation and after-death, tries to understand and to give meaning. He seeks answers for the questions “who I am, where did I come from and where am I going”.

In fact, which he is seeking is happiness; continuous, eternal happiness… To make the world livable, to render the life bearable is the objective. Since, as Socrates says “the unexamined life is not worth living”.

The truth of death constitutes the core of this pursuit.

If a person reckons life is composed of only this world, death confronts him and says: “Everything makes you happy and gives you pleasure is transient. Wake up and seek the real, endless happiness.

Death is the most naked warner for human-being who is gravitated by the perishable attractions of the world and move away from the main purpose.

Death is the door to the home of the real, endless happiness.

This work makes “fear of death therapy” in a sense. It shows the beautiful face of death. It represents the viewpoint of how to turn the suffering from mortal world blessings into pleasure passing through the door to eternity.

This book tells us how consumption frenzy consumes, in fact, “human-being”.

With his pleasant style Emre Dorman invites those seekers of eternal peace who are brave enough to wake up from world sleep and question their life, to face with the truth of death.

EMRE DORMAN

CANER TASLAMAN

Human-Beings Sleep,Wake up as They Die

From Universe to God



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“Prayer is the essence of worship” says the prophet of Islam. As this hadith attests, through prayer a servant of the Lord both approves his servitude and also the unity of worship of the Lord. To understand the way a human being sees Him, himself and the whole universe, we could look into his prayer. Each human being is as much a servant as his prayer.

This strong relationship between the servant and the Lord, established by prayer, also has another aspect shedding light into the inner world of man. As long as he establishes a correct servant-Lord relation through prayer, the pieces of the inner world of a man would also be well placed. And this turns prayer into an opportunity to heal the wounds of our inner worlds against the questions, problems and dilemmas raised by life.

Prayer Therapy is dealing exactly with this ‘healing’ aspect of prayer. The inward, spiritual and psychological healing opportunities created by the prayer related connection between man and Lord are being explained through examples using mystical and psychological points of views.

Prayer Therapy is a must-read book for those desiring to heal their spiritual wounds through prayer.

“A praying soul is confessing his deeply rooted faith to Lord, while at the same time, acknowledging the deep trust and confidence to His almighty power. Prayer

with this respect, as well as being a manifestation of devoutness, also seems to be a pre-condition of spiritual health. In this context, the inner therapy of prayer is some kind of a key to spiritual health.”

Prayer Therapy

ESMA SAYIN

Positive Communication in Child Education

Spouses either treat each other or send each other to therapy. Nowadays spouses do not accept each other for who they are, and therefore their marriage turns into a hurtful battleground. While they struggle to change and transform each other, a whole life goes by in staleness. Sometimes, as women become mannish, the men become passive and as the men become passive, the women become more aggressive. Sometimes however, the men become more aggressive causing women to become more desperate and this desperation leads to the child oppressed. Yet, the basic principles of happiness are “unconditional respect” and “accepting people for who they are”. Humans are humans only as long as they are allowed to be themselves, not when they are under pressure and coercion. Similarly, a healthy child is not the one whose behavior is conferred by either punishment or reward. A healthy child is the one who gained the will to refrain from a behavior because he understands that the behavior is “wrong”. Here is the book that talks about these issues. It offers insights into a positive family life that are sometimes overlooked.

ADEM GÜNEŞ



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Sener Akturk’s Turkey’s Identities: Religion, Language, Ethnicity, Nationality, State, and Civilization is a comparative analysis at its best of the multiple identities that Turkey includes, along with identity conflicts at every level, with examples ranging from Russia to Spain, from China to Germany. From the outset, this book aims to be “solution oriented” while always maintaining its historical and international comparative perspective.

The following are among the many questions that frame the

individual chapters and articles of this book, with tentative answers offered by the author:

- What are the origins, consequences, and limits of Turkey’s ongoing “Kurdish opening”?

- Can there be an Ottoman identity without the Greek Orthodox, the Armenians, and the Jews?

- What is a civilization?

- Is there (or was there) an Islamic civilization?

- Which civilization does present-day Turkey belong to?

- What are the origins of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Europe?

- Did Balkan Muslim refugees establish Turkey?

- Is Turkey, the state of the ethnic Turkmen?

- Can Islamism be the solution to Turkey’s identity crisis?

- Can Turkish identity be the common supraethnic identity of Turkey’s citizens?

ŞENER AKTÜRK

Turkey’s Identities: Religion, Language, Ethnicity, Nationality, State, and Civilization

Sufi teaching relies upon a methodology, as well.

“Sufism is a state of being, not a statement, and cannot be obtained through wording” says Abdul-Qadir Gilani. This state of being is the state of perfect man (al-insan al-kamil).

Sufi tradition has raised countless “perfect men” (al-insan al-kamil) through its services throughout the centuries.

Then, by which methods did Sufism achieve this?

This book gives the answer to this question.

It also answers the questions that what characteristics does Sufi teaching have, how does Sufism mature human-being and whether Sufism shares methods current teaching systems exploit or not with a satisfying content.

The book which has an informative content about historical development of Sufism, its origin, its character and its truth, is based on an important academic research.

Surprising the modern perception, the special importance Sufis give to the women education and their development of special institutions for women is one of the remarkable sections of the book.

Sufi PedagogyCharacter Education in Sufism

Assoc. Prof. ŞAKİR GÖZÜTOK



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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi is the one of the most important Islamic thinker lived in the last Ottoman period and contemporary Turkey.

Psychiatrist Nevzat Tarhan investigates Nursi’s personality and his ideas on human and society. This book helps you to understand Bediuzzaman Said Nursi in different perspective.

The Conscience of Age:Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Prof. Dr. NEVZAT TARHAN

Although the mothers are well-meaning and caring towards their children, the breeding of the children most time resulting with a comedown. The mother who is smiling at every kind of noise on one day before not cannot be patient on even the voice of just a “click” today. Cause of this, all the woman who have the care of growing up their children well have an associated opinion; ‘being a mother is very difficult!’

Expert Pedagogue Adem Gunes is explaining the reasons of this difficulty by asking 28 different questions. Does the mom have joi de vivre? Did the mom ever become left of her father in 4 ages of herself? Does she love her husband, has

she embraced him? Is she loved by her husband? The mothers giving the answers to such kind of questions are realizing the weight on their shoulders. By finding the ways of decreasing the weight on her shoulders, she seen the motherhood is getting eased up. The writer says “one part of motherhood is recognition progress of the child” and explains the things that should be attended for committing this process well.

The Art of Motherhood

ADEM GÜNEŞ

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The most magnificent era of the Ottoman Empire. A young man was recruited from the heart of Anatolia. He was an architectural genius woven in the arduous journeys from east to west. A dervish hearted wise man walking with firm steps on a fortune-brightened road and rising to the rank of the head architect. A sincere believer whose affection only expanded and whose humility wrapped his character even tighter as his ranks rose. A spirit who carved his love in stones

and engraved the basic principles of his belief in his immortal works. A genius, who managed to complete his apprenticeship, journeymanship and mastery on the steep slopes of love.

While reading “The Man Who Makes Stones Talk” you will witness the history and the master, who struck a seal of oneness of God into every corner of the empire, while carving his immortal love on stones.

The Man who Makes Stones Talk- A Novel of Mimar Sinan

MÜRSEL GÜNDOĞDU

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Behavior Training with Stories Welcome to the Tali’s entertainment world! Behavior Training Set consists of 10 story books, an

activity book and a VCD. Cute rabbit Tali accompanies children as the main

character in the book. Tali is a very good-hearted, like every child, but also

a character can make mistakes from time to time. Your children will learn good habits with Tali. Tali and his adventures sees to be a favorite friend of all children with colorful contents and funny activities.

Berrin Göncü IşıkoğluIllustration : Gülkan ÇizimeviPage : 16Dimensions : 19,5x27 cmTitles : 10

Page : 64Dimensions : 19,5x27 cm

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Emotional IntelligenceTraining White StoriesThis serie has ten books, a colouring book with activities

and also a VCD. The emotional skills that these stories intend to give your children are:

• To express negative feelings with healthy and harmonious behaviour: anger, jealousy, undervalued, disappointment, despair, separation anxiety, pessimism-depression, ridiculed, belittled and fear.

• To express positive feelings and nurture them; conscience and compassion; responsibility, empathy, patience and trust.

• To solve problems with patience and calmness in the times of conflict. Children will enjoy with Tali’s stories.

I-PAD

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Together with the little believers do you want to learn about

five pillars of Islam, how to pray (salah), how to thank God, how to wear hijabhow to live a healthy life and how to praise God?You will love “The Series of Little Believers” enriched

with amusing stories, coloring and activities!

THE SERIES OF LITTLE BELIEVERS

Dr. Eren TatariIllustration : Amir and Meliha Al- Zubi Page : 24Dimensions : 24x29.5 cm

FIRST WORDThis series is about saying “Bismillah” which means that in the name of

God. This set has four stories books. And each book looks from different perspectives of “bismillah.” The books have special cutting (as a bag shape). And their colours are very pretty. Illustraions are so cute. Little children will enjoy with these books so much.

Nurefşan ÇağlaroğluIllustration : İlknur SalmanPage : 16Dimensions : 15x20 cm

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Dear children, we are Muslims. Our religion is Islam, our Lord is Allah and our prophet is the Prophet Muhammad. As Muslims we should take him as an example in our every behavior, every movement and live like he lived. Then, Allah will love us and help us with everything, because the Prophet is the God’s most-beloved people.

We have prepared this book to learn the beloved Prophet’s words and act accordingly. Our Prophet’s words and behaviors are called Hadith. Let’s apply the hadiths we learn here in our lives. We wish you success in your life, and wish you to be God’s beloved servant following the way of the Prophet Muhammad.

40 HADITH COLORING

Hayrünnisa ŞenIllustration : Gökhan GülkanPage : 96Dimensions : 19.5x28 cm

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The continuation of much loved set of activities is meeting with you!

In each book, you will enjoy the theme-specific•Short information•Dozens of fun activities •Sticker pages•Reward star stickers•Coloring.With the first three books of this set, you have already

learned about the holy places and mosques while doing fun activities.

Now, you’ll learn wudu, prayer (salah) and fasting with lots of activities including line work, matching, maze, connect the dot puzzles and hidden object!

LEARNING WITH ACTIVITIES SET

Ayşenur GüneşIllustration : Ercan Polat Page : 36Dimensions : 24x35.5 cm

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Dear children, with this book consisting of two parts “God Is The Creator Of All Things” and “Who Does God Love?” you will learn the expressions from the Quran as well have fun doing coloring.

The Qur’anic message in this book will contribute to development of your character and personality, while coloring will provide fun!

PAINTING 40 VERSES FROM QURAN

Hayrünnisa ŞenIllustration : Ayşe Seda DenizerPage : 96Dimensions : 19.5x27 cm

This book aims that to love and teach pray at all points. And includes lots of informations, stories, poems, quoets and funny activities about salaah.

Necla GünayIllustration : Ercan PolatPage : 208Dimensions : 14.5x18 cm

MY LOVELY WHORSHIP: PRAY

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Where do we go after we die? What would happen if there were no death? Why do people die? What would happen if we knew the date of our death? How do people resurrect in the afterlife? What should we do to go to heaven? How will the big court be established? How are our deeds recorded? What does heaven look like? Who will go to hell? What is the Sirat Bridge?

The answers to these questions and much more are in this book.

•Why can’t we see God?•Why do we thank God?•How does God create?•Is God’s knowledge unlimited?•Is there any place that God can’t see?•How does God clean the whole word?•Why do we worship God?•Why doesn’t God look like what he created?•Does God ever get tired?•Can we call God Allah?•How can God be everywhere?•Does a believer get scared of death?•Does God hear when we pray?•Can something be self-created?Dear children, do you ask these questions as well? In

this book you will find the answers to many questions like these. You will learn many things that you wonder about God while reading these stories.

I WANT TO LEARN ABOUTTHE AFTERLIFE

FAITH STORIESI WANT TO KNOW GOD

Süleyman KaracelilIllustration : Murat BingölPage : 128Dimensions : 16x23.5 cm

Süleyman KaracelilIllustration : Murat BingölPage : 104Dimensions : 16x23.5 cm

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Bilal with Seymanur are siblings who love each other very much... After one family visit they decided to gift a prayer every day. A nice meal they had, a beautiful flower they saw, or a poor boy they met became the theme of their prayers.

Dear children! With this book, you will go on a prayer journey that lasts 365 days. With Şeymanur and Bilal, you will love cats and fish and dream looking at the sky. You will embrace the excitement of waiting for their new sibling, Burak to be born. What do you think? Shall we open our hands to the sky and say amen to the beautiful prayers of this family altogether?

365 DAYS OF PRAYER WITH STORIES

Ali Karaçam- Hasibe ŞahinIllustration : Sevgi İçigenPage : 384Dimensions : 22x22 cm

Little Kenan has a nice family and a vibrant and colorful world..Kenan, like every child, goes to school, studies, and travels, has fun and plays games with friends, but more importantly, he is learning new things every day, because he is a curious kid who asks many questions, explores and wants to learn.

365 DAYS OF RELIGIOUS TERMSWITH STORIES

Ali Karaçam- Süleyman EzberIllustration : Sevgi İçigen Page : 384Dimensions : 22x22 cm

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This book introduces the holly book Quran. And also tells about prophets’ lives, Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve, heaven and lots of things that Quranic… Especially you can find the surah’s landing stories in this book.

Where is God?Where did we come from?Should we fear God?Why does God have so many names?“How Does God create?” gives answers to these

questions in a precise and fun way without confusing your minds!

Written for children over the age of 10, this book is waiting for you with the fun characters, colorful drawings and lively design.

My Lovely Book Quran

HOW DOES GOD CREATE?Nurdan DamlaIllustration : Murat Bingöl Page : 400Dimensions : 16,5x22,5 cm

Mehmed PaksuIllustration : İbrahim ÇiftçiPage :128Dimensions : 12x20 cm

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The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said that you children are the “heaven scent” and “the light of our eyes”. You, have heard many times about that beautiful soul. Stories have been told about his life and your little hearts are filled with love for him. He is the nicest of all the people and the most beautiful role model for us.

Our beloved Prophet (PBUH) lived a blessed and exemplary life from 571 until 632. As a prophet, he delivered us the truth of God. He taught us how to be good people and good believers. Everyone has carefully watched his words, his life and his response to different cases.

In this book, the Prophet’s (PBUH) exemplary life is addressed with all the details. His life from the time he honored the world until the day he joined God is explained to the level of primary school age children.

MY DEAR PROPHET

Yavuz BahadıroğluIllustration : Murat BingölPage : 224Dimensions : 16.5x22.5 cm

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