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	List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $12.95 You Save $2.00! Author: Nevval Sevindi, Ibrahim M. Abu Rabi Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791473542 Product Code: LGT-ENG-274

Description Reviews More Details   Discusses the ideas of the most important living Muslim thinker and leader in contemporary Turkey. Contemporary Islamic Conversations discusses the ideas of Turkey’s most significant Muslim figure, M. Fethullah Gülen. Originally published in Turkish by Nevval Sevindi, one of Turkey’s top journalists, this edited translation makes Gülen’s work and ideas accessible to the English-speaking world for the first time. It includes interviews conducted by the author with Gülen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999. The book explores his ideas regarding Islam and the West, Islam and violence, and religion and the future of the nation-state in Turkey and the Muslim world. Gülen has worked hard to revive the religious tradition of the Turkish theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877–1960), and while his debt to Nursi’s ideas is clear, he has a passionate interest in Islamic theology and Arabic and Turkish literature, and is also deeply interested in poetry, philosophy, sociology, and the classics in general. Gülen offers a moderate perspective on Islam, is open to interfaith and intercivilizational dialogue, and defends a notion of Islam in which Muslims are able to fully engage the world without any fear or prejudice. His community of followers has opened 500 high schools around the world, including the United States, and also owns seven universities in Central Asia and Turkey.   Features Table Of Contents Editor’s Introduction Preface 1. Fethullah Gülen’s Life and Thought 2. The Actual Source of Hope: The Duty of Humanity 3. The Flowering of the Individual 4. Islam, Violence, and the West 5. Turkish Identity between Islam and Nationalism 6. Turkey’s Quest for Unification with Europe 7. Reform in Islam and the Turkish Renaissance 8. Iranian Islam 9. Criticism and Countercriticism of the Gülen Phenomenon in Contemporary Turkey Appendix: Two Poems by Fethullah Gülen Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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