July 12, 2011

Fethullah Gülen's Paradox: Combining Commitment and Tolerance

Lester R. Kurtz

Fethullah Gulen
Fethullah Gulen
The paradoxical fusion by Turkish sage Fethullah Gülen of intense faith commitment with tolerance results in a paradigm of Islamic dialogue. As a movement founded to foster spiritual commitment to a faith tradition, it now reaches out to non-Muslim believers and even non-believers...