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... t class which will then turn Turkey into a centre of the religious world, Islamise the country," said Hakan Yavuz, a professor of political science at the University of Utah. "It is the most powerful movem ...
... perience with the movement, said that Mr. Gülen "sincerely believes that he has been chosen by God," and described Mr. Gülen's followers as "Muslim Jesuits" who are preparing elites to run the country. Hak ...
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... change and changing perceptions of the West in Turkish Islam." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 9/2004 [500] Ihsan Yilmaz, "Ijtihad and Tajdid by Conduct» in "Turkish Islam and the Secular State Th ...
... He has inspired an immense civil society movement that since the late 1960s has evolved and grown to encompass many facets of social life (Yavuz & Esposito 2003; Hunt & Aslandogan 2006). The movement is tryi ...
... ns and superstitions or as an internal struggle with one's self. Lesser jihad means a material fight, but as I understand it, always in the sense of iustum bellum, not bellum sacrum that is more often ...
... Gülen's influence over his own the movement, Yavuz notes A decade ago, this religious community was not even willing to allow their daughters to go to secondary or high schools. They preferred to send fe ...
... that the state has always had the monopoly on the definition of Islam, as well as of important concepts like democracy and secularism. Indeed, Hakan Yavuz argues that one of the reasons for the hostil ...
... tural reasons, we can talk of Islam in the plural sense. Drawing on the work of M. Hakan Yavuz (2004), I argue that TIECS and the Gülen Movement practice 'Turkish Islam'[1] which has Sufi principles at its ...
... to in ways that relate to a variety of diverse and contested meanings (see Weller, 2006a). As explained by Hakan Yavuz and John Esposito (2003: xvii), "In many developing countries, secularism has be ...
... . The Gülen movement is doing its utmost to represent and introduce Islamic values." Dr. Şevket Yavuz from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University noted that the most important aspect of the international agend ...
... n active politics, success-oriented 'Otherization' and adversary component is weak.[386] Yavuz adds four additional attributes to the followers' profile: they are "more predisposed to tolerance, electoral ...
... tihad and Tajdid by Conduct", in Turkish Islam and Secular State, The Gülen Movement, M Hakan Yavuz, John L. Esposito (edts), New York, Syracuse University Press, 2003 [414] Ramadan, ibid, pp. 132-134 [ ...
... erence, Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of The Gülen Movement (Leeds: Leeds Metropolitan University Press, Oct 2007), 268-284, at 280. [133] Ihsan Yilmaz, "Ijtihad and Tajdid by Conduct: the Gül ...
... modernization of Turkish, Arabic and other nationalities (H. Yavuz, 2003b, 274). However, Gülen argues that this identity should not take on an identity of confrontation and conflict, but rather one o ...
... ice and ignorance is also Gülen's tradition. Thus, intercultural dialogue all over the world is the main agenda of the Gülen movement as the papers in this book by Richard Khuri, Sevket Yavuz, Davut Ay ...
... 9.. [163] Yunus Emre, Risâlat al-Nushiyya ve Dîvân, edited by Abdülbâki Gölpinarli(Istanbul: Sulhi Garan Matbaasi Koll. Sti, 1965), 49, 107. Sevket Yavuz His MA. (1996) and PhD (2002) were from Temple ...
... osophy of Rabbi Kook, 320. [31] Gündem, M.(2005) Milliyet, 27 Ocak. [32] Yavuz, M.H. (1999) Search for a New Contract in Turkey: Fethullah Gülen, the Virtue Party and the Kurds. Sais Review, 19, 1,125. ...
... l aspect of the changing Islamic attitudes in Turkey (Yavuz & Esposito, 2003), whereas others examine its political dimension (Yavuz, 2006). Few works stress the connection between these two sides (Kur ...