The Gülen movement in Turkey : the politics of Islam and modernity / by Caroline Tee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tee, Caroline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gülen, Fethullah.

Gülen Hizmet Movement.

Islam and science--Turkey--History.

Islam and social problems--Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Summary:

"What is the Gulen Movement and why is Turkey's President Erdogan so convinced that the organisation and its charismatic leader were behind the failed military coup of 15th July 2016? The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey was until recently the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. At its head is the exiled Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who leads from a gated compound in the Pocono Mountains of the USA.The movement's central tenet is that Muslims should engage positively with modernity, especially through mastering the sciences. At hundreds of Gulen-run schools and universities, not only in Turkey but also worldwide and particularly in the United States, instructors have cultivated the next generation of Muslim bankers, biologists, software engineers and entrepreneurs. In this groundbreaking study, Caroline Tee, an expert on the Gulen Movement, analyses the complex attitudes of Gulen and his followers towards secular modernity. Considered against the backdrop of Turkish politics, Gulenist engagement with modern science is revealed as a key source of the influence the movement has exerted."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

PART ONE: Background

Chapter One - Gülen: Leader and Community

Chapter Two - A Nursian Spiritual Framework for Modernity

PART TWO: Science and Education

Chapter Three - The Gülen Movement's Science-focused Schools

Chapter Four - Islamic Creationism in Gülenist Thought

Chapter Five - Higher Education, Networking and Careers in Science

PART THREE: The Wider Context

Chapter Six - Intercultural Dialogue

Chapter Seven - Globalization of the Movement and Gülen in America

Chapter Eight - Political Influence and the AKP

Afterword.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350988729

1350988723

9781786720276

1786720272

9781786730275

1786730278

OCLC:

965197328