
Reflections on Reason, Religion, and Tolerance
Engaging with Fethullah Gulen's Ideas
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About this book
This is an attempt to reflect on Islam as it appears in the context of Fethullah Gulen's teachings, an influential Turkish-Muslim scholar who inspired a movement of education and interfaith dialogue. Grinell's extensive study of Islam and of Gulen allows him to pinpoint a unique expression of values and beliefs that could alter the typical understanding of Islam and Muslims in the West. He draws upon his previous studies of the Gulen Movement and comparatively places Gulen in a wider context of faith and society. What is the concept of knowledge in Islam as understood by Gulen? How is faith and service to people connected? Is Gulen after building a sultanate? Does the Gulen movement have a (hidden) political agenda? How traditional or modern is Gulen? These are some of the questions Grinell attempts to answer from his perspective. As a humanistic researcher on Islam, Grinell believes we definitely have something to learn from Islam.
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Table of contents
- Reflections on Reason, Religion, and Tolerance:
- Copyright © 2013 by Blue Dome Press
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 My First Meeting with the GĂŒlen Movement
- Chapter 2 Are You a Muslim, or What?
- Chapter 3 Knowledge, Reflection, Insight
- Chapter 4 Fethullah GĂŒlen and Turkish Islam
- Chapter 5 Can GĂŒlen Represent Islam?
- Chapter 6 Research, Objectivity, Dialogue
- Chapter 7 Islam in Turkey
- Chapter 8 A Meeting in İstanbul, a Rainy Day in March
- Chapter 9 Said Nursi, Jaques Derrida and the Limits of Justice
- Chapter 10 Writing about Islam
- Chapter 11 A Meeting at the Journalists and Writers Foundation
- Chapter 12 Religion and Science - Faith and Knowledge
- Chapter 13 A Meeting in İstanbul; Some Beautiful Days in November
- Chapter 14 Akhlaq: Islamic Ethics
- Chapter 15 Border Thinking
- Chapter 16 Am I an Islamist, or What?
- Chapter 17 Islam: The Women and the Men
- Chapter 18 Between Tradition and Modernity