 | The following themes are the range of issues that papers will address. Fethullah Gülen's and the Gülen movement's views and practices related to the:- teaching and interpretation of Islamic principles and issues
- interpretation of the Qur'an, roles and relationships of science, reason, faith, and religion
- Sufism
- Turkish "Muslimness"
- education in contemporary societies
- interfaith and intercultural dialogue, tolerance and peace
- understanding of the historical dynamics and references of tolerance, multiculturalism and the Ottoman example
- terrorism, coercion, and violence
- jihad
- the resolution of social, ethnic, and religious conflict in the modern world, and democracy
- inculcating faith by teaching (tabligh) and by example (tamsil)
- approaches to universal ethical values
- Turkey's coexistence with or integration into the European Union
- the changing role of women in society and in public life.
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