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The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey is the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. Its central tenet, advanced by its founder, the charismatic Sunni preacher Fethullah Gulen (b. 1941), is that Muslims should engage positively with modernity. A prime means of advancing this philosophy has been education: at hundreds of Gulen-run schools and universities, not only in Turkey but also worldwide, instructors aim to cultivate the next generation of Muslim bankers, biologists, software engineers and politicians. But how does the Gulen movement resolve the sometimes conflicting positions of Sunni Islam and contemporary science for example, on evolutionary theory? Drawing on sustained ethnographic research conducted among Gulen communities in Turkey, Caroline Tee analyses their complex attitudes towards secular modernity. She focuses on education, science research and industry to explore how pious Muslim practitioners engage in science at high levels, arguing that the Gulen movement's success in this critical area of modernity has facilitated its rise to prominence in recent decades. Considered against the backdrop of Turkish politics, and particularly the acrimonious power-struggle between the Gulen movement and its erstwhile ally, Turkey's ruling AK Party, Gulenist engagement with modern science is revealed as a key source of its influence and success.
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"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.
Gülen, Fethullah. --- Gülen, M. Fethullah --- Gulen, Muhammad Fethullah --- كولن، فتح الله --- Gi︠u︡len, Fatkhullakh --- Гюлен, Фатхуллах --- Fatḥ Allāh Gūlin, Muḥammad --- Gūlin, Muḥammad Fatḥ Allāh --- Fatḥ Allāh Gūlan, Muḥammad --- Gūlan, Muḥammad Fatḥ Allāh --- فتح الله گولن، محمد --- فتحالله گولن، محمد --- گولن، فتح الله --- Şahin, M. Abdülfettah --- Gülen, Fetullah --- Ǵulen, Fetulah --- Ѓулен, Фетулах --- Gülen Hizmet Movement. --- GHM --- Gülen Movement --- Gülen Hareketi --- Gülen/Hizmet Hareketi --- Hizmet/Gülen Movement --- Islam and science --- Islam and social problems --- History. --- Social problems and Islam --- Social problems --- Science and Islam --- Science --- Gu̇len, Fetkhullaḣ --- Gu̇len, F. --- Fethullahçı Terör Örgütü --- FETÖ
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