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Ori Z Soltes - Between Thought and Action, Inbunden

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Between Thought and Action

An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

Av Ori Z Soltes

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This volume has two goals. One is to explore the life and the thought of Fethullah Gülen and the important educational and peace-inducing activities in which he and those inspired by him have been engaged for several decades. The outcome of those effortsof creating schools and providing diverse social and cultural services that bring people together people from diverse backgroundshas been to provide the face of civic and civil Islam as an antidote to the uglier side of political Islam. The second goal has been to make clear how the accusations against Mr. Gülen by the minions of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could hardly be more false: that what Gülen and the hizmet (service) movement that he has inspired are ultimately about is improving the world and saving it form its uglier inclinations. A brief discussion of his life and thought has been supplemented by the voices of more than 70 interviews conducted over several years, with individuals intimate and more distant but all inspired to be part of the process of serving humanity.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-01
  • Mått: 153 x 229 x 31 mm
  • Vikt: 584 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 292
  • Förlag: Blue Dome Press
  • ISBN: 9781682060315
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This is a compelling, thoroughly-researched and presented portrait of a Turkish-Sufi sage of our times. A charismatic yet modest figure who has inspired a large international charitable and educational organiza-tion called Hizmet, Fethullah Gülen and his movement have become a target of what appears to be an unwarranted vicious campaign by the current Turkish government, for reasons that remain unclear. Soltes, a Georgetown University-based scholar with dozens of books under his belt, has interviewed nu-merous individuals in places ranging from the Republic of Georgia to Australia and the United States, and has also met several times with Gülen himself. He traces how Gülens Hizmet movement emerged out of a Sufi-influenced civil and cultural school of Islam that does not seek political power, transforming focus on the future of Turkish Muslims into concern for all of humanity and our planet. -- Dr. Alex S. Kohav, Department of Philosophy Metropolitan State University of Denver, Author of Mysticism and Experience

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