... iddle way" that he advocates is not a road of mere 'compromise' but is one that is rooted in an understanding and application of traditional Islam in which Islam is itself identified as a middle way. Haka ...
... s "one of the most influential revivalist movements in modern Turkey." On Gülen's influence over his own the movement, Yavuz notes A decade ago, this religious community was not even willing to allow the ...
... n February 3, 2006. [11] Excerpt from the author's interview with a groups of women from Surgucu village on February 2, 2006. [12] See Thomas Michel, "Fethullah Gülen as Educator", in M. Hakan Yavuz and John ...
... uestar. P.11 cited in Michel ibid. [37] Kuru, A. T. 2003. Fethullah Gülen's Search for a Middle Way Between Modernity and Muslim Tradition.In Turkish Islam and the secular state: The Gülen movement. M ...
... n ninety countries in five continents (Yavuz and Esposito 2003; Baskan 2004; Tekalan 2005), two modern hospitals, the Zaman newspaper (now in both a Turkish and English edition), a television channel (S ...
... an Yavuz has described the members of the Gülen hizmet as being Turkish Puritans.[8] It is easy to dismiss such phrases as being throw-away lines, especially when they are used by the media without any ...
... n individual reward or utilitarian calculations for one's happiness. This love entails self-sacrifice, self-denial, and a personal conviction to transform life on earth [Yavuz, 2003, 34]. Such a love is ...
... e of the model makes it at least theoretically possible to use the Gülen educational system in any country. Hakan Yavuz describes the "movement" as a "loose network system" consisting primarily of share ...
... orm life on earth (Yavuz, 2003: p. 34). Such a love is the foundation of pedagogy. Consequently, not all teachers are educators. Gülen (2004) asserts, "Education is different from teaching. Most people c ...
... Civilisations, p5. [7] Thomas Michel. "Fethullah Gülen as Educator." Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement. Ed. M Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito. Syra Cruz, Syra Cruz University Pr ...
... scholars, including the political scientist, M. Hakan Yavuz (2003) and the Islamic theologian, Zeki Saritoprak (2005). Gülen was born in Turkey, where he eventually became a licensed Imam and subsequentl ...
... Light, Inc., & IID Press, 2006, 76. [6] John O. Voll, Fethullah Gülen: 'Transcending Modernity in the New Islamic Discourse', in M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito, eds., Turkish Islam and the Secular S ...
... produced an a-critical knowledge which was unable to cope with modernity (see Yavuz 1997). [6] Ünal & Williams 2000:168, taken from Riza Zeylut, Aksam, April 19th 1997. [7] In particular Gülen thinks at ...
... Tajdid by Conduct, The Gülen Movement", in M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito (eds), Turkish Islam and Secular State, The Gülen Movement, New York, Syracuse University Press, pp 208-237 [4] Talal Asad, G ...
... k, 2007, 66 [34] Michel, T, "Fethullah Gülen as Educator," in Turkish Islam and the Secular State, ed., Yavuz, M H and J L Esposito, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2003, 81. [35] Michel, " ...
... lenge to the more radical Islamist movements arising in many parts of the world (Yavuz 2003a, 4). The Jesuit movement spread because at its core "lies a determination to make education not just a next- ...
... y from Islamist political parties and voted for centre-right parties which promised not shariah but religious freedom. According to Hakan Yavuz, Nursi, unlike the Young Turks and Kemalists who praised ...
... in theory, ESI refers to the Turkish sociologist M. Hakan Yavuz, a specialist of the Gülen movement[8]; an aspect is particularly underlined by the article: the impact of the Nur movement on the "Musl ...
... , with an intensified emphasis on the philosophy's more universalistic, pluralistic, liberal, and democratic qualities in recent years (Yavuz, 2005 p45), it remains rooted in Turkish-Ottoman experience. ...
... asse or Opportunity for FurtherRenewal" Critique (12, 2003), 70. [9] Hasssan N. Gardezi "Sufi Mysticism of the Indus Valley" http://www.apnaorg.com/articles/sufi.html Viewed Sept. 21, 2007. [10] Hakan Yavuz ...