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The Gulen movement, that's probably one of their key commitments besides education, is interfaith dialogue. Many of them would say that interfaith dialogue is another form of education. And so, interfaith dialogue in their view is a way in which all of us living in the planet, whether we are people of faith or whether we're not, can come to understand each other and build relationships with one another so we can peacefully co-exist. Read More...
The Fethullah Gülen Movement-II
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A international conference entitled "Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gülen Movement in Thought and Practice" was held at Southern Methodist University of Dallas on 4-5 March 2006. Below are full texts of the conference papers. A .pdf version of the papers as a whole can be found at conference's web site.

Organisers:

The Institute of Interfaith Dialog, Texas; the Graduate Program in Religious Studies, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University; and the Office of the Chaplain at Southern Methodist University are sponsoring a conference at on the activities of Fethullah Gülen and their contributions to interfaith dialogue, tolerance, and education.

# Article Title Author
1 Women and Their Rights: Fethullah Gülen's Gloss on Lady Montagu's "Embassy" to the Ottoman Empire Dr. Bernadette Andrea
2 When Mevlana Comes About the Turkish Thinker's Paradigms and Russian Sociocultural Peculiarities Dr. Vitalii I. Sheremet
3 Leaving Footprints in Houston: Answers to Questions on Women and the Gülen Movement Anna J. Stephenson
4 Reading the World in Fethullah Gulen's Educational Philosophy Magdy Said
5 "The Cry of the Nightingale" Fethullah Gulen – A Modern-Day Rumi? Catherine B. Eustis
6 Fethullah Gulen's Methodology of Interpreting Quran Dr. Faruk Tuncer
7 Pedagogical Model of Gulen and Modern Theories of Learning Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan
8 Global Peaceful Social Innovation: The Case of Gulen Network Fahri Karakas
9 Islam and Terror: From the Perspective of Fethullah Gülen Dr. Ismail Albayrak
10 Fethullah Gülen as a Servant Leader Gurkan Celik & Yusuf Alan
 

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