Helen R Ebaugh’s book on Gulen Movement continues to draw attention around the globe. Qantara.de has translated a recent interview with Dr. Ebaugh from German.
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Feed SubscriptionGulen’s Pedagogy and the Challenges for Modern Educators
You may be acquainted with what, in my opinion, is one of the most interesting phenomena occurring today in the world of education. I am referring to those institutions usually referred to loosely as the “Gulen schools” or “schools of ...
Read More »Muslim Peace Leaders, Medieval and Modern: Rumi and Gulen
A modern Muslim who has appropriated Rumi’s perspective and integrated it into his own understanding of Islamic faith the Turkish scholar and religious leader, Muhammad Fethullah Gulen. The correspondence of Mevlana to Gülen is that of kindred spirits who, across ...
Read More »An interview with Helen Rose Ebaugh
What is the story behind this book ? How did you start to be interested in this movement? I teach the Sociology of World Religions at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, and after the events of 9/11 (bombing of ...
Read More »Fethullah Gülen: Following in the Footsteps of Rumi
One of the modern Muslims who have appropriated Rumi’s attitudes and integrated them into their own understanding of Islamic faith and practice is the Turkish scholar and religious leader, Muhammad Fethullah Gülen. The correspondence of Mevlana to Fethullah Gulen is ...
Read More »Fethullah Gülen as Educator
The topic that I chose for this paper is that of Fethullah Gülen as an educator. I must confess at the outset that I have arrived at the topic of my talk backwards. Rather than having studied the writings of ...
Read More »The Gülen Movement: A Sufi-Type Spirituality for Modern Societies
The emergence in Europe and North America of interest in the thought of Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen is a phenomenon that demands explanation. Several American universities, such as Rice and Georgetown, have held academic seminars to study the various aspects ...
Read More »Two Frontrunners for Peace: John Paul II and Fethullah Gulen
Of those religious thinkers of modern times who have attempted to study the concept of peace to explore what is involved in establishing and maintaining peace, I want to compare the thought of two persons who have made a remarkable ...
Read More »Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement
Many of you already know much about the life and thought of Fethullah Gülen, but for those here who do not, allow me to state a few words of introduction. I ask the indulgence of those who in many cases ...
Read More »Foreword to the book: Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance
I can cite my own case as an example. I am a Catholic priest, an American living in Rome. I have known the members of the movement associated with Fethullah Gülen for more than a decade, and I can state ...
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Fethullah Gulen Tolerance, Dialogue and Peace