Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement

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M. Hakan Yavuz, John L. Esposito
Syracuse University Press, 1 nov 2003 - 316 pagina's
In the first book of its kind, M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito explore recent reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islamist modernist Fethullah Gülen movement. As one of the most significant religious movements to emerge in Turkey in the past fifty years, the Gülen movement combines a devotion to Islam with love for modern learning. especially modern science. This groundbreaking work focuses on and explains the nexus of complex historical and political developments that have contributed to the transformation of Islam in Tukey and to the movement's sphere of influence stretching into the Balkans and central Asia through the establishment of schools outside Turkey. The book cogently traces the origin of Gülen's ideology and his early efforts to propagate his views through educational activities. It details the various strategies employed by Gülen's followers to put his ideas into practice, both in Turkey and around the world. Contributors describe its intellectual and religious formation, its spread across Turkey and Central Asia, and its influence on citizens outside the movement, including leading Turkish politicians.
 

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Islam in the Public Sphere The Case of the Nur Movement
1
The Gülen Movement The Turkish Puritans
19
The Gülen Movements Islamic Ethic of Education
48
Fethullah Gülen as Educator
69
Following in the Footsteps of Fethullah Gülen Three Women Teachers Tell Their Stories
85
Fethullah Gülens Search for a Middle Way Between Modernity and Muslim Tradition
115
Diaspora and Stability Constitutive Elements in a Body of Knowledge
131
Fethullah Gülen A Sufi in His Own Way
156
The Making of Enemy and Friend Fethullah Gülens NationalSecurity Identity
170
National Loyalties and International Undertakings The Case of the Gülen Community in Kazakhstan
184
Ijtihad and Tajdid by Conduct The Gülen Movement
208
Fethullah Gülen Transcending Modernity in the New Islamic Discourse
238
Abant Declarations
251
References
257
Index
275
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M. Hakun Yavuz is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. He is the author of Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. John L. Esposito is the founding director of the Center for Muslim-Christian understanding and professor of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Services. He is the author of Islam and Politics, Fourth Edition, and Women in Muslim Family Law, Second Edition, both published by Syracuse University Press.

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