Mahir Zeynalov
The chief of the world’s largest Muslim body has said the Norway massacre and blast that left at least 76 dead and dozens injured is only “the tip of the iceberg,” warning that the incident is the latest product of rampantly rising extremist political movement sweeping across Europe.
July 30, 2011
July 29, 2011
Kimse Yok Mu to step up efforts in East Africa
Today's Zaman
As part of its Ramadan 2011 campaign, Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) has announced it will intensify its relief efforts in East Africa, which has been hit hard by the worst drought in decades.
July 28, 2011
The era of dialogue will never be over
Kerim Balcı
It was in 1994 that I read Fethullah Gülen's declaration of all the ages until the resurrection to be an “era of dialogue.” At that time, I was surprised to hear such decisiveness in the voice of a Muslim scholar, in labeling the ages to come as an especially peace-seeking era.
It was in 1994 that I read Fethullah Gülen's declaration of all the ages until the resurrection to be an “era of dialogue.” At that time, I was surprised to hear such decisiveness in the voice of a Muslim scholar, in labeling the ages to come as an especially peace-seeking era.
July 27, 2011
Review of Literature on Economic Aspect of Gulen Movement
Taptuk Emre Erkoç
As with other community-based organizations and social movements, the financial resources raised and deployed by the Gülen Movement have been the subject of intense curiosity. However, neither in academic journals nor in newspapers have the economic aspects of the Movement been examined on the basis of evidence and consistently applied reasoning. Or, to say it in a straightforward way, the curiosity has not been of the best, disinterested kind. In this series of articles I will try to discuss the financial dimension of the Gülen Movement strictly on the basis of concrete findings and analysis (not speculation and ill-informed guesswork). By way of background for future articles, I will present here a very brief literature review. But first, a few reflections on the nature of the Movement, misconceptions about which are the reason for the unhealthy speculation about its finances will be touched upon here.
As with other community-based organizations and social movements, the financial resources raised and deployed by the Gülen Movement have been the subject of intense curiosity. However, neither in academic journals nor in newspapers have the economic aspects of the Movement been examined on the basis of evidence and consistently applied reasoning. Or, to say it in a straightforward way, the curiosity has not been of the best, disinterested kind. In this series of articles I will try to discuss the financial dimension of the Gülen Movement strictly on the basis of concrete findings and analysis (not speculation and ill-informed guesswork). By way of background for future articles, I will present here a very brief literature review. But first, a few reflections on the nature of the Movement, misconceptions about which are the reason for the unhealthy speculation about its finances will be touched upon here.
July 26, 2011
Book Review: Civic Service Without Borders
Anwar Alam *
The Gülen Movement, as it is usually referred to in English, has attracted the attention of “critical public minds and scholarship” throughout the world in recent years for two important reasons. First, Fethullah Gülen’s ideas and praxis demonstrate the potential role of religion in reshaping the present violent, conflict ridden world into an inclusive, humanistic society and world order based on the principles of pluralism, intercultural dialogue, and mutual living. Second and more important, Gülen, through his twin tools of Islamic hermeneutics and public actions, particularly in the field of education, has restored the “humane face of Islam” in the public eye—something that was lost due to centuries of a radical, positivist, secular and Orientalist narrative of Islam and more recently due to acts of violence in the name of Islam—and has demonstrated the complementarity of Islam and modernity. This reconciliation of faith and reason—both in terms of theory and action—solves a conundrum that has plagued the Islamic scholars for long.
The Gülen Movement, as it is usually referred to in English, has attracted the attention of “critical public minds and scholarship” throughout the world in recent years for two important reasons. First, Fethullah Gülen’s ideas and praxis demonstrate the potential role of religion in reshaping the present violent, conflict ridden world into an inclusive, humanistic society and world order based on the principles of pluralism, intercultural dialogue, and mutual living. Second and more important, Gülen, through his twin tools of Islamic hermeneutics and public actions, particularly in the field of education, has restored the “humane face of Islam” in the public eye—something that was lost due to centuries of a radical, positivist, secular and Orientalist narrative of Islam and more recently due to acts of violence in the name of Islam—and has demonstrated the complementarity of Islam and modernity. This reconciliation of faith and reason—both in terms of theory and action—solves a conundrum that has plagued the Islamic scholars for long.
July 25, 2011
‘If whoever touched Fethullah Gülen was doomed, we would have been ashes by now’
Fatih Vural
"A number of things have been published against me; dozens of books have been written. However, I have never done anything to keep an unprinted book from publication.
I only pursued my rights as a citizen by legal means in the face of baseless accusations, slander, and assaults against my individual rights. Even books which were identified as illegal by court decisions and whose authors were sentenced to pay compensation have been reprinted.
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| Fethullah Gulen |
I only pursued my rights as a citizen by legal means in the face of baseless accusations, slander, and assaults against my individual rights. Even books which were identified as illegal by court decisions and whose authors were sentenced to pay compensation have been reprinted.
July 24, 2011
A reader's digest for the 9th International Turkish Olympiads
9th International Turkish Olympiads took place between June 15-30. Below are some news excerpts and insider stories that were not published in our blog earlier.
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