Contemporary Islamic Conversations: M. Fethullah Gulen on Turkey, Islam, and the West - Couverture souple

Sevindi, Nevval

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791473546 ISBN 13 : 9780791473542

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2007

Synopsis

Contemporary Islamic Conversations discusses the ideas of Turkey's most significant Muslim figure, M. Fethullah Gülen. Originally published in Turkish by Nevval Sevindi, one of Turkey's top journalists, this edited translation makes Gülen's work and ideas accessible to the English-speaking world for the first time. It includes interviews conducted by the author with Gülen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999. The book explores his ideas regarding Islam and the West, Islam and violence, and religion and the future of the nation-state in Turkey and the Muslim world.

Gülen has worked hard to revive the religious tradition of the Turkish theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960), and while his debt to Nursi's ideas is clear, he has a passionate interest in Islamic theology and Arabic and Turkish literature, and is also deeply interested in poetry, philosophy, sociology, and the classics in general. Gülen offers a moderate perspective on Islam, is open to interfaith and intercivilizational dialogue, and defends a notion of Islam in which Muslims are able to fully engage the world without any fear or prejudice. His community of followers has opened 500 high schools around the world, including the United States, and also owns seven universities in Central Asia and Turkey.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nevval Sevindi writes for the daily Zaman and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. At the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, and Abdullah T. Antepli is the Coordinator of Islamic Chaplaincy and Interfaith Relations. Abu-Rabi' is the editor of several books, including Islam at the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, both also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791473546
• ISBN 13: 9780791473542
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Éditeur: Abu-rabi Ibrahim M.
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