Turkish entrepreneurs providing educational services in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have won a year-long legal battle, and all rights of International School No. 664, also known as Russian-Turkish College, have been returned, after its license was revoked in May 2007. Ali Ertugrul Türkeli, ...
It seems that we have forgotten how to act like human beings. We are far removed from representing our unique status among all of existence. Despite all the qualities we possess which the angels envy, we engage in acts that even evil spirits would be embarrassed of.
What is the importance of having a good opinion of others for a Muslim’s way of thinking?
Last week, Fethullah Gülen, the leader of one of the most dynamic and influential religious movements in Turkey, was acquitted of the charge of undermining the secular Republic, which had led to his moving to the United States.
This month Foreign policy magazine and Prospect Magazine recognized Prominent Islamic Scholar Fethullah Gulen as The Top Public Intellectual. This is according to a reader poll in which 500,000 people voiced their opinion on FP's website.
Judicial moves against the democratically elected ruling party, former high-ranking military officers' leadership of gangs and organized crime, and talk of yet more coups; in the claims and counterclaims,...
A US court has ruled that the Bush administration improperly rejected a prominent Turkish religious scholar's application toward permanent residence in the United States and ordered the government to reverse...
When a conflict arises in society, adherents of any ideology will use it to their own advantage. One way they do this is by pushing groups outside the conflict to be involved in it.
The days we are going through are hard ones; these are days where almost all of us have difficulty being ourselves.
Last Sunday witnessed Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals gathering for the first time to hammer out what many saw as historic document in solving the Kurdish problem in Turkey.
It seems that we have forgotten how to act like human beings. We are far removed from representing our unique status among all of existence. Despite all the qualities we possess which the angels envy,...
What is the importance of having a good opinion of others for a Muslim’s way of thinking?
Some people claim that in Muslim societies, women are confined to their home and they are oppressed. Is there any truth in this claim? What is the position of women in family life and in society according...
Today, the entire globe but especially certain parts of the world are passing through a critical turn, which is more dangerous than ever. The destruction of the power balance, chaotic situations and utter...
They are like him who kindled a fire. However, when the fire had just lit all around him God took away their light and left them in darkness, unseeing. (Baqara 2:17)
Abstract This paper is about the conditions of inter-ethnic, inter-religious and inter-class relations in Gülen schools and looks into their operation in non-Turkish and non-Muslim settings. It aims...
Abstract This paper examines the individual and collective de-stigmatization strategies of the Gülen Movement in France and Germany. Firstly, it describes the organizational structures of the 'neocommunitarian'...
Abstract This paper reflects on Turkish influence and specifically the ideas of Fethullah Gülen and his community on formation of identity and values in Central Asia. After the collapse of the Soviet...
Abstract This paper contains an exposition of Fethullah Gülen's model of peaceful coexistence. Based on qualitative analysis of his writings, conversations, sermons and public speeches, the authors distinguish...
Abstract Generally, the more windows are opened the more light enters our space. Fethullah Gülen is one of those charismatic Muslims of our time who try to 'open windows' of true dialogue and to overcome...
Everyone takes up the matter of a new world order and evaluates it from a different point of view, according to their own thoughts. This is quite natural. For example, people who have suffered from an...
As in the past, there are some conjectures being made about the future today as well. One of these is the claim regarding the future as an age of information. Those people who are discussing the future...
Your Most Respected Holiness, We bring you the sincerest greetings from the people of the land known to be the birthplace of the three great religions, people who have full knowledge of your sacred mission...
I would like to make it very clear that any terrorist activity, no matter by whom it is carried out or for what purpose, is the greatest blow to peace, de-mocracy, and humanity. For this reason, no one—and...
Just as every dawn, every sunrise, and every coming spring signifies a new beginning and hope, so does every new century and every new millennium. In this respect, within the wheels of time, over which...
The Messenger of God lived in an age that well-manner had been long forgotten and in a place in which daughters were subject to infanticide. You will have an idea of their well-manner, by only looking...
Much has been said on the issue of information sources. Some of the people who have commented on this issue have sometimes been restricted by their knowledge and/or faith, thus they have vocalized different...
Prophet Muhammad is like the core of all the good deeds, prosperity and divine blessing. He is the unfailing, unerring guide, the exemplar to be taken as a model by all, and the one who leads to the Right...
The hawk's swooping contributes to the sparrow's alertness and agility. Although rain, electricity, or fire sometimes harms people, no one curses them. Fasting may be difficult, but it provides the body...
The Architect of Our SoulsHumanity is terribly in need of people with inner depths and sincerity now, more than anything else, for people who suffer and cry for the sins and errors of others; who look forward to forgiveness and pardon of others before their own... Read More... |
Longing For LoveIt seems that we have forgotten how to act like human beings. We are far removed from representing our unique status among all of existence. Despite all the qualities we possess which the angels envy... Read More... |
Gülen MovementThe Gulen movement, that's probably one of their key commitments besides education, is interfaith dialogue. Many of them would say that interfaith dialogue is another form of education. And so, interfaith dialogue in their view is a way in which all of us living in the planet... Read More... |
Rotterdam ConferenceBelow are some papers presented in the Rotterdam Conference on the Fethullah Gülen Movement. |
"Islamic Puritanism" as a Source of Econom...
very interesting paper
The Qur'an
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