March 24, 2010

Quotes about Fethullah Gulen: By Prof. Paul Weller from University of Derby, Derby, UK

Prof. Weller on Fethullah Gulen's teachings
Prof. Paul Weller
It is precisely at this time of transition in the particular corner of the world that Fethullah Gülen's teaching can play such an important role. This is because Gülen is one “who knows how to argue the case on Islamic grounds” and thus to have the possibility to “redirect the religious fervour of hot-headed young men” from violent and near Manichean confrontationalism towards a self-critical renewal. Gülen's teaching is not ‘modernist’, and so it cannot, with integrity, be denounced as a ‘sell-out’ to secularism. Nor is it “reformist” in the sense that many mean by this.

Quotes about Fethullah Gulen: By Maria Maigre from London School of Economics, London, UK

Fethullah Gülen's cultural and religious influence on both the business and political classes within the Gulen movement has driven the moderation of political Islam and opened the way toward the integration into the new reality of globalization where the frontier between religion and business are blurred and those notions are brought together within a new conception of Culture.