Progressieve Islamitische denken, maatschappelijk middenveld en de Gulen beweging in de nationale context

Greg Barton

Fethullah Gülen (born 1941), or Hodjaeffendi as he is known affectionately by hundreds of thousands of people in his native Turkey and abroad, is one of the most significant Islamic thinkers and activists to have emerged in the twentieth century. His optimistic and forward-looking thought, with its emphasis on self development of both heart and mind through education, of engaging proactively and positively with the modern world and of reaching out in dialogue and a spirit of cooperation between religious communities, social strata and nations can be read as a contemporary reformulation of the teachings of Jalaluddin Rumi, Yunus Emre, and other classic Sufi teachers (Michel, 2005een, 2005b; Saritoprak, 2003; 2005een; 2005b; Unal and Williams, 2005). More specifically, Gulen can be seen to be carrying on where Said Nursi (1876-1960), another great Anatolian Islamic intellectual, left off: chartinga way for Muslim activists in Turkey and beyond to effectively contribute to the development of modern society that avoids the pitfalls and compromises of party-political activism and replaces the narrowness of Islamist thought with a genuinely inclusive and humanitarian understanding of religion’s role in the modern world (Abu-Rabi, 1995; Markham and Ozdemir, 2005; Vahide, 2005, Yavuz, 2005een).

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  1. Adnan zegt:

    Nice article, there are more articles related to Gulen Movement at the below websites.

    http://www.fethullahgulenconference.org
    http://www.guleninstitute.org
    http://www.fethullahgulenlibrary.org

  2. Ike Lazarte zegt:

    Interesting article.. Would like to see more of this.. Awesome blog btw! Subscribed

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