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Fethullah Gülen's teaching and practice : inheritance, context, and interactive development

Title
Fethullah Gülen's teaching and practice : inheritance, context, and interactive development / Paul Weller.
Author
Weller, Paul, 1956-
Publication
  • Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Description
xxi, 250 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • Gülen, Fethullah > Teachings
  • Gülen, Fethullah > Interviews
  • Gülen, Fethullah
  • Gülen Hizmet Movement
  • Islam and politics > Turkey
  • Islam and politics
  • Teachings
  • Turkey
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Note
  • Open access version available.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Focus of the Book -- 1.2. A Religious Studies Approach -- 1.3. Situating in the Wider Literature -- 1.4. Evidence, Aims, and Methods -- References -- pt. I Turkish Muslim Scholar, Preacher, and Activist -- 2. Person, Places, and Development -- 2.1. Biographies of Fethullah Gulen -- 2.2. Erzurum: Traditional Contextualisation -- 2.3. Edirne: Secular and Plural Contextualisation -- 2.4. Izmir: Creative Contextualisation Through Differentiation -- 2.5. Istanbul: Withdrawal and Cosmopolitan Engagement -- 2.6. Pivotal Role of Educational Initiatives -- 2.7. Europe, Turkish Eurasia, and Beyond -- 2.8. Ènemy of the State' -- References -- pt. II Islamic Rootedness, Taboo-Breaking, and Socio-religious Implications -- 3. Biography, Context, and Substance in Interplay -- 3.1. Turmoil as Turkish Context -- 3.2. Distinctive Scholar, Teacher, and Innovator -- 3.3. Sources, Places, Times, and Revelatory Dynamics -- 3.4. Overcoming Secular-Political Taboos -- 3.5. Overcoming National-Cultural Taboos -- 3.6. Overcoming Religious Boundary Taboos -- References -- 4. Islamic Spirituality and Social Processing -- 4.1. Muslim Insecurity, the H̀eroic' Tradition, and Alternative Hermeneutics -- 4.2. Spirituality, the True Human, Love, and Service -- 4.3. For Human Freedom -- 4.4. Against Theocracy and for Democracy -- 4.5. Islam, Terror, and Deradicalisation by Default -- References -- pt. III Islamic Heroism, Hizmet Loss, and a Future Beyond Gulen? -- 5. Learning from Loss? -- 5.1. Wounded Exile -- 5.2. Giilen, Hizmet, and Dealing with Trauma -- 5.3. The Hijrah Interpretation and Post-Fact Religious Causality -- 5.4. Self-Criticism and Its Limits -- References -- 6. Inheritance, Methodology, Integrity, and Creativity -- 6.1. Evaluating Giilen Interactively with Hizmet -- 6.2. Distinctive Normativity and Ordinary Ǹormality' -- 6.3. Giilen and Hizmet: Now and Beyond -- 6.4. Linguistic Deposits, Interpretive Processing, and Informed Application -- 6.5. The Methodology of Learning by Doing -- 6.6. Love, the Human, and Ecumenical Ijtihads in Action -- 6.7. Going Beyond Gulen?.
Call Number
JFD 22-2502
ISBN
  • 9783030973629
  • 303097362X
  • 9783030973650
  • 3030973654
OCLC
1308484773
Author
Weller, Paul, 1956- author.
Title
Fethullah Gülen's teaching and practice : inheritance, context, and interactive development / Paul Weller.
Publisher
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9783030973636
Research Call Number
JFD 22-2502
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