Days of Depression and Our Atlas of Hope

Days of Depression and Our Atlas of Hope

Humanity has come up with many beautiful things, and has made great inventions up to now. In a way, it is thanks to these efforts that the people of our time are enjoying a life of comfort, never equaled in any period...

Men, But Not Just Any Men!

Men, But Not Just Any Men!

If I had not actually seen them I would have said, it is mere fantasy, idle talk or imagination—a luminous shadow of the generation of the noble companions of the Prophet. Although it is understood of course, that t...

The Fethullah Gulen Movement

The Fethullah Gulen Movement

The Gulen movement is attracting increasing and sometimes hostile attention both inside Turkey and beyond as a result of its increasing activity, wealth, and influence. Inspired by the thoughts of its founder, Sufi sc...

Gulen Speaks on Gaza Strikes

Gulen Speaks on Gaza Strikes

Turkish scholar Fethullah Gulen reacted against Israel's Gaza offensive by urging on international organizations such as the UN, the EU, the ICO, Arab League, and the NGO's to take the necessary steps to soothe the c...

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Turkish NGOs Collaborate to Help Palestinians in Gaza

Turkish NGOs Collaborate to Help Palestinians in Gaza

Turkish NGOs have come together under one roof to help assuage the pain of the besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and contribute to a resolution of the conflict.

Fethullah Gülen and the Contribution of Islamic Scholarship to Democracy

Fethullah Gülen and the Contribution of Islamic Scholarship to Democracy

Since the fifth century BCE, democracy has been discussed by political theorists, philosophers and members of diverse societies and cultures. Although it is commonly accepted that democracy as a form of government originated in...

Men, But Not Just Any Men!

If I had not actually seen them I would have said, it is mere fantasy, idle talk or imagination—a luminous shadow of the generation of the noble companions of the Prophet. Although it is understood of course, that the merit...

Sızıntı Celebrates 30th Year as 'Magazine of Love and Tolerance'

"Our goal is to help the nurturing of generations committed to the nation's spiritual dynamics and to seeing belief in God as indispensable to morality," says the editor-in-chief of the monthly Sızıntı magazine, the most widely...

The Fethullah Gulen Movement

The Gulen movement is attracting increasing and sometimes hostile attention both inside Turkey and beyond as a result of its increasing activity, wealth, and influence. Inspired by the thoughts of its founder, Sufi scholar Fethullah...

Bombs in Gaza Make Conscience of Humanity Bleed, Says Gülen

Gulen Speaks on Gaza Strikes

Turkish School Excels in Kenya

Response to an Open Letter

Turkish 'Mathletes' Win 22 Medals in US

Peace and Dialog Symposium Held in Kenya

Portraits from Russia, Turkey and America

Is There a Single Complaint from 110 Countries?

An Operational Study

Turkish 'Exceptionalism'

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Interreligious Dialogue as a Spiritual Practice

Interreligious dialogue was not a twentieth century development in the history of relations between Christians and Muslims. There are numerous examples when Christians and Muslims joined in public dialogues,...

Defining Ethos in Global Values Education

As an investment, education awards a great benefit to the social economy of any country as an efficient and concise human effort focused on productive outcomes. Can commitment to developing thinking skills...

Fethullah Gülen and the Concept of Responsibility

The concept of responsibility forms an important bridge between practice, value and belief. Some Christian theologians and ethicists, for example, see it as core to religious identity (Niebuhr 1963, Schweiker...

The Gülen Movement: Gender and Practice

Introduction

Fighting Poverty with Kimse Yok Mu

1. The enemies of human societies

Islamic Himmah and Christian Charity: An Attempt at Inter-Faith Dialogue

Seeds of Peace: Solidarity, Aid, and Education Shared by the Gülen Movement in Southeastern Turkey

Gülen-inspired Schools in the East Africa: Secular Alternative in Kenya and Pragmatist Approach to Development in Uganda

Redefining "Us" and "Them": Gülen's Approach to Transformation of Perceptions between Muslims and Non-Muslims

Unresolved Concerns of Women in the Modern Age: How Does the Gülen Movement Contribute to the Women Question?

Women in Islam: Muslim Perspectives and Fethullah Gülen

Gülen's Dialogic Sufism: A Constructional and Constructive Factor of Dialogue

M. Fethullah Gülen: A Preacher of Piety and Integrity of Action: A Study in Analogy Between the Gülen Movement and the Clapham Circle

An Alternative Approach to Preventing Ethnic Conflict: The Role of the Gülen’s Schools in Strengthening the Delicate Relations Between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds with Particular Reference to the "Kirkuk Crisis"

Fethullah Gülen as a Transformational Leader: Exemplar for the "Golden Generation"

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New World Order

Everyone takes up the matter of a new world order and evaluates it from a different point of view, according to their own thoughts. This is quite natural. For example, people who have suffered from an...

Regarding the Information Age and the Clash of Civilizations

As in the past, there are some conjectures being made about the future today as well. One of these is the claim regarding the future as an age of information. Those people who are discussing the future...

"I Trust in the Beauty Found in the Make-Up of Humanity"

Your Most Respected Holiness, We bring you the sincerest greetings from the people of the land known to be the birthplace of the three great religions, people who have full knowledge of your sacred mission...

Message Concerning the September 11th Terrorist Attacks

I would like to make it very clear that any terrorist activity, no matter by whom it is carried out or for what purpose, is the greatest blow to peace, de-mocracy, and humanity. For this reason, no one—and...

At the Threshold of a New Millennium

Just as every dawn, every sunrise, and every coming spring signifies a new beginning and hope, so does every new century and every new millennium. In this respect, within the wheels of time, over which...

As a New World is Being Built

A Comparative Approach to Islam and Democracy

Real Life and Real Humanity

A Movement Originating Its Own Models

Education from Cradle to Grave

Educational Services Are Spreading Throughout the World

Real Muslims Cannot Be Terrorists

Love, Tolerance, and Jihad in the Life of the Prophet

Lesser and Greater Jihad

Human Rights in Islam

Speech and Power of Expression

The most precious of values inherited from our ancestors, speech does not consist only of clarity of meaning, the sound of words, or the expression of certain intentions. It also gives voice to our thoughts, expresses the music of our feelings...

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Language and Thought

Language is one of the fundamental Dynamics in the composition of a culture. The power of a nation is directly proportional to the power and richness of its language and thought. A perfect command of language and the ability to...

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Reunion with Ourselves

The twentieth century was a century of incessant problems and the present continues to be the same. One of those problems is so very deep that it makes us forget all others; it is chronic and resistant to intervention and...Read More

The World Awaited

When we ponder great historical events we can see that thought and action live within one another, that they are interlaced in togetherness; action is, on the one side, planned and fed by thought, while on the other side...Read More

The Statue of Our Souls

The person who equips and improves their heart with faith in God and knowledge of Him in proportion to that faith and knowledge, feels a profound affection and a vast love for all human beings and in fact for all creation...Read More

Gülen Movement

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Rotterdam Conference

Below are some papers presented in the Rotterdam Conference on the Fethullah Gülen Movement.