... of around 30 elder brothers (büyük abiler), some of them Gülen's closest friends and students, who are highly respected and regularly consulted on major day to day policies (Yavuz 2003: 189). A transformation ...
... Saba 2005 Politics of Piety. The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ozdalga, Elisabeth 2003 Following in the Footsteps of Fethuallah Gülen. Three Women Tea ...
... development as providence delivers new experiences. Speaking with Hakan Yavuz in Philadelphia in October 2000 he says: We all change, don't we? There is no exit from change. By visiting the States and m ...
... as grown out of a community of his followers and came to be commonly denoted as the Gülen Movement (Yavuz & Esposito 2003; Yilmaz 2007). Public and academic interest in Gülen and the movement in the We ...
... the Turkish system. 2.1 The First Example Yavuz (2003a:1–2) claims that the emergence of the Gülen Movement is attributable to the increased migration from the countryside to the cities, the urbanization, ...
... amisms and even non-Islamisms. ReferencesAhmed, Akbar (2003) Islam under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World. Oxford: Polity Press. Aktay, Yasin (2003) 'Diaspora and Stability: Constitutiv ...
... ition and modernity, Islam and Turkish nationalism. He has been described by Hakan Yavuz as a "modern hybrid of [a] religious-intellectual in his ability to interpret Islamic precepts within the context of ...
... 5). "The Gülen Movement's Islamic Ethic of Education" in Turkish Islam and the Secular State, ed. M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito (pp. 48-68). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Amenta, Edwin (2 ...
... iven positive coverage of the impact and activities of the movement in and outside of Turkey, as have an increasing number of academic journal articles and books produced by university presses (Yavuz ...
... Religion on the subject 'Religion and Society: challenging boundaries', held in Zagreb, 18–22 July 2005. [4] Ibid. [5] M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, "A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire," Princeton Unive ...
... of Said Nursi (1873-1960), namely the formation of dershanes─"reading circles" or networks of small groups of people gathered to discuss works read in common. As profiled by Yavuz (2003), these groups "are spaces for ...
... 20th century the story of the Turkey was one that was dominated by the ideology of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881–1938), the founder of the modern Turkish state who abolished the Muslim Caliphate in 1924. Y ...
... acuum. Yavuz and Esposito [2003. xii] argue that 'the sharp division between moral community and the political sphere is the source of many problems in Turkey. As the Turkish political domain does not ...
... ait Yavuz, University of Maryland College Park, MD: Women in Islam: Muslim Perspectives and Fethullah Gülen VI B - Panel B: Philodemic Room Topic: Peace Building through Education Chair: Janaan Hashim ...
... Gülen's thirty years of searching for truth through incremental renewals of the Islamic faith (see M Hakan Yavuz & John L Esposito, eds.,
Turkish Islam and the Secular State, Syracuse University Press ...
... edonia raised a great conqueror; Anatolia reached its prosperous era; and people like Fatih Sultan Mehmet opened a new age thanks to their teachers. Yavuz (Selim I), a man of great discipline and order, as ...
... ülen: A Sufi in His own Way." In Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement, edited by Hakan Yavuz and John Esposito, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. ...
It will not be better unless it gets worse. The accelerating pace of developments in Turkey consolidates the impression that the path the country will take, by redefinition of identity and resetting of ...
... an Yavuz, co-editor of Turkish Islam and the Secular State: the Gülen Movement (Syracuse), describes the Gülen movement as comprising a small inner cabinet along with a network of perhaps 5m like-minded volu ...
The International Turkish Language Olympics, a hugely successful international event now in its sixth year, concluded Sunday night with the finalists receiving prizes in a ceremony held at the İstanbul ...