Strategic Defamation Of Fethullah Gulen

Author : Doğan Koç
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761859306
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen written by Doğan Koç and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fethullah G len is a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar who is known mostly for his education and dialogue activities. The Hizmet Movement, inspired by G len, has established hundreds of education and dialogue institutions throughout the world. Several books and hundreds of articles and news reports have been written about G len himself and the movement. In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against G len and the Hizmet Movement. Although these defamation articles may seem random, this book will show that the articles are written strategically in a campaign manner. In Strategic Defamation of Fethullah G len, close to 500 defamation articles, books, and other forms of writings are analyzed according to their languages. Ko concludes that these defamations are not random and that they appear according to their respective audiences.

Author : Turkey Task Force
Publisher : Rethink Institute
ISBN 13 : 1938300262
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE PERSECUTION OF THE HIZMET (GÜLEN) MOVEMENT IN TURKEY: A CHRONICLE written by Turkey Task Force and published by Rethink Institute. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Salih Yucel
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 1597849731
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life in Tears written by Salih Yucel and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fethullah Gülen is a leading figure in the current Turkish socio-political context. Regardless of the impression different circles have about him, he is universally acknowledged as an accomplished scholar and independent thinker who has had a life in tears dreaming of a “golden generation,” but also a life spent in persecution and ongoing trials. This book goes beyond the current controversy around his name, and tries to explore Gülen as a scholar around his certain personal traits and some of the key concepts he has been emphasizing over the years to mobilize his audience. Based on a research that covers over seventy books, 564 sermons, over 500 talks by Gülen, more than fifty interviews of his close associates and friends aired on TV networks, and the author’s personal observations, this book is a useful reference for those who study scholarly traditions of Islam in general and Fethullah Gülen in particular.

Author : Paul Weller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030973638
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice written by Paul Weller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gulen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gulen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gulen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gulens teaching in the Quran and Sunnah in dynamic engagement with their geographical, temporal and existential reception, translation, and onward communication. It argues that as Hizmet cannot be understood apart from Gulen and his teaching, Gulen and his teaching cannot be understood apart from Hizmet, while exploring the heritage of both. A more geographically focused case study is set out in author Paul Wellers Hizmet in Transitions: European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Movement, also published by Palgrave Macmillan (2022). Paul Weller is Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Religion and Society and UK Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture at Regents Park College, University of Oxford, UK, and an Associate Member of the Universitys Faculty of Theology and Religion.

Author : Pim Valkenberg
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813227550
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renewing Islam by Service written by Pim Valkenberg and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewing Islam by Service offers a theological account of the contemporary Turkish faith-based service movement started by Fethullah Gülen, and placed against the backdrop of changes in modern Turkish society. The life and works of Gülen are analyzed against the background of developments in Turkish society, and of spiritual Islamic tendencies in the transition from the Ottoman empire to the secular republic. Pim Valkenberg includes stories of his personal experiences with supporters of this movement, in a number of dierent countries, and analyzes the spiritual practices and the faith-based service of this movement that is also compared to some important Christian religious movements.

Author : Salih Yucel
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 1597849065
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Coexistence written by Salih Yucel and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global threat of war, terrorism, the increased gap between poor and rich, famine, malnutrition, global warming and pollution, and many other social and cultural problems, pose a real challenge for present citizens of the globe. Intellectuals and politicians take these challenges as their primary concerns. Despite the existence of some pessimists, there are a number of initiatives working for the common good and expending great effort to solve these problems. The Hizmet (Gulen) Movement is one of the most influential initiatives that should be taken into consideration in this context. Fethullah Gulen is a Turkish Muslim scholar whose ideas have inspired and influenced many Turkish intellectuals, educators, students, businessmen, politicians and journalists inside and outside Turkey to establish schools, educational and intercultural centers, and humanitarian aid organizations in more than one hundred fifty countries. Yucel and Albayrak cover the Hizmet Movement under the leadership of Fethullah Gulen from various perspectives in order to shed lights on current discussions.

Author : John D. Barton
Publisher : Blue Dome Press
ISBN 13 : 1682065227
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Muslim Sage Among Peers written by John D. Barton and published by Blue Dome Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume puts Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet movement in dialogue with Christian theologians, philosophers and organizations concerning areas of shared interest. The Christian voices represented in these constructed dialogues are diverse: contemporary and historical, Catholic and Protestant, theological and pragmatic. While all of the essays explore overlaps and similarities between Gulen and these dialogue partners, they also bring to the surface differences and critical assessments. The result is a multi-faceted conversation that invites us all into deeper levels of historical and theological imagination, self-reflection, and collaborative service.

Author : David Tittensor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199336423
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Service written by David Tittensor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Tittensor offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the Gülen movement, a Turkish Muslim educational activist network that emerged in the 1960s and has grown into a global empire with an estimated worth of $25 billion. Named after its leader Fethullah Gülen, the movement has established more than 1,000 secular educational institutions in over 140 countries, aiming to provide holistic education that incorporates both spirituality and the secular sciences. Despite the movement's success, little is known about how its schools are run, or how Islam is operationalized. Drawing on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, Tittensor explores the movement's ideo-theology and how it is practiced in the schools. His interviews with both teachers and graduates from Africa, Indonesia, Central Asia, and Turkey show that the movement is a missionary organization, but of a singular kind: its goal is not simply widespread religious conversion, but a quest to recoup those Muslims who have apparently lost their way and to show non-Muslims that Muslims can embrace modernity and integrate into the wider community. Tittensor also examines the movement's operational side and shows how the schools represent an example of Mohammad Yunus's social business model: a business with a social cause at its heart. The House of Service is an insightful exploration of one of the world's largest transnational Muslim associations, and will be invaluable for those seeking to understand how Islam will be perceived and practiced in the future.

Author : Carool Kersten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317182529
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority written by Carool Kersten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like anywhere else, the present-day Islamic world too is grappling with modernity and postmodernity, secularisation and globalisation. Muslims are raising questions about religious representations and authority. This has given rise to the emergence of alternative Islamic discourses which challenge binary oppositions and dichotomies of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, continuity and change, state and civil society. It also leads to a dispersal of authority, a collapse of existing hierarchical structures and gender roles. This book further argues that the centre of gravity of many of these alternative Islamic discourses is shifting from the Arabic-speaking 'heartland' towards the geographical peripheries of the Muslim world and expatriate Muslims in North America and Europe. At the same time, in view of recent seismic shifts in the political constellation of the Middle East, the trends discussed in this book hold important clues for the possible direction of future developments in that volatile part of the Muslim world.

Author : Francesco Piraino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787383482
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Sufism written by Francesco Piraino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago and Sweden. The contributors look at the global spread and stance of such major actors as the Ba 'Alawiyya, the 'Afropolitan' Tijaniyya, and the Gülen Movement. They map global Sufi culture, from Rumi to rap, and ask how global Sufism accommodates different and contradictory gender practices. They examine the contested and shifting relationship between the Islamic and the universal: is Sufism the timeless and universal essence of all religions, the key to tolerance and co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims? Or is it the purely Islamic heart of traditional and authentic practice and belief? Finally, the book turns to politics. States and political actors in the West and in the Muslim world are using the mantle and language of Sufism to promote their objectives, while Sufis are building alliances with them against common enemies. This raises the difficult question of whether Sufis are defending Islam against extremism, supporting despotism against democracy, or perhaps doing both.