Gülen on dialogue
Book
Authors | Sleap, Frances, Shener, Oemer and Weller, Paul |
---|---|
Abstract | This booklet is about the thought and practice espoused and practised by Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet movement. Fethullah Gülen is one of the most important Muslim scholars of our time for whom dialogue is not just about overcoming problems of our globalising world but is necessitated by our very humanity and his Islamic faith. Therefore, dialogue is an ever present and underlying theme for Gülen in addition to being a particular area of thought and practice that he seeks to promote and develop. What is significant about Gülen, however, is that he is not just a scholar and thinker but also a doer who has inspired millions to think and act alongside him in what has now emerged as a civil society movement known as the Hizmet movement. As pointed out by editor Paul Weller, "Gülen does not teach a “liberal” or “modernist” version of Islam. Rather, his teaching offers a robust renewal of Islam that is engaged with the contemporary world. It is rooted in a deep knowledge of authentically Islamic sources." The fact that Gülen bases his ideas and thought (and by extension, the movement its practice) on authentically Islamic sources is significant at a number of levels – not least because it demonstrates how Muslims can engage and respond to modern |
Keywords | Fethullah Gulen; Dialogue; Islamic sources; Hizmet movement; Dialogical Practice |
ISBN | 9780992931209 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625241 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/625241 | |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | May 2014 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 Oct 2020, 11:18 |
Accepted | 2014 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | Centre for Hizmet Studies |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9536w/g-len-on-dialogue
Download files
75
total views0
total downloads2
views this month0
downloads this month