The Atlantic interviews Fethullah Gulen

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Fethullah Gulen is one of the most important Muslim clerics alive today. Throughout his life, Gulen served as a model for interfaith dialogue and encouraged ideas to overcome ignorance, prejudice and misunderstanding. But, one hardly ever sees the world renowned scholar in public. Since 1999, he has been in a self-imposed exile in the Poconos. Major media networks and journalists have tried to interview him but were denied. It's a rare opportunity that Australian-born journalist Jamie Tarabay managed to secure.

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Fethullah Gülen's poems turned into songs for international album

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Artists from twelve different countries composed music for poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is known for his global message of peace and inter-faith tolerance, for an album titled “Colors of Peace-Rise Up” to promote peace and tolerance.

The poems were translated into English, and each artist selected one poem to interpret in song.

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Fethullah Gulen on Love and Valentine's Day

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Q: What do you think about the Valentine's Day?

A: Love is a universal fact. There are various manifestations of love in different platforms. None of the versions of love is despicable. We might talk about aimless, purposeless or pointless types of love. If someone treats his/her family with love, if s/he treats his/her children with love, if s/he treats his/her parents with love, if s/he feels love for God or humanity,

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Strategic defamation of Fethullah Gulen

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Dogan Koc, Ph.D.

Who is Gulen? Fethullah Gülen is a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar who is known mostly for his education and dialogue activities. The Hizmet Movement, inspired by Gülen, has established hundreds of education and dialogue institutions throughout the world. Several books and hundreds of articles and news reports have been written about Gülen himself and the movement. In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Gülen and the Hizmet Movement. Although these defamation articles may seem random, this book shows that the articles are written strategically in a campaign manner. In Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen, close to 500 defamation articles, books, and other forms of writings are analyzed according to their languages by Dogan Koc. Dr. Koc concludes that these defamations differ from each other and appear according to their respective audiences.

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Prof. Sykiainen: Fethullah Gulen's ideas are crucial in today's world

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Leonid R. Sykiainen, Ph.D.

Fethullah Gulen Chair at the UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia hosted a conference titled The Significance of the Education for the Future: The Gulen Model of Education.

Prof. Dr. Leonid R. Sykiainen, a professor of Islamic law and comparative legal studies as the State University–Higher School of Economics in Moscow, was interviewed at the opening reception:

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CBS 60 minutes: Fethullah Gulen advocates education

Alp Aslandogan, Ph.D.

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CBS 60 minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl (LS) is interviewing Alp Aslandogan (AA), President of Institute of Interfaith Dialogue in Houston, Texas regarding the ideas of Fethullah Gulen on education:

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CBS 60 minutes: Fethullah Gulen promotes democracy

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Fethullah Gulen discussed in 60 Minutes

CBS 60 minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl (hereafter LS) interviews Abdulhamit Bilici (hereafter AB), the director of the Cihan News Agency in Istanbul:

AB: "Fethullah Gulen is one of our columnists, he explains his point of view, especially about how to interpret Islam in modern age."

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An analysis of the Gulen Movement

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This is one of the first academic books about Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish scholar and preacher, and the civic movement he inspired in Turkey and ultimately throughout the world. The movement is rooted in moderate Islam and is committed to educating youth, fostering interfaith and intercultural dialog, assisting the needy in society and contributing to global peace. Based on interview data and visits to Gülen-inspired institutions, the book describes the movement from a sociological perspective, especially through the lens of social movement theory. It is the first book, grounded in empirical methodology, to describe the movement to a Western audience. It will be of special interest to social scientists interested in religious movements, religious scholars seeking information on Islamic movements and the general public eager to discover a moderate Islam that promotes humanitarian projects.

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Importance of Gulen-inspired schools

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Fr. Thomas Michel

Fethullah Gulen Chair at the UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia hosted a conference titled The Significance of the Education for the Future: The Gulen Model of Education.

Fr. Thomas Michel (Secretary, Vatican Secretariat for Inter-religious Dialogue), was interviewed at the opening reception:

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Scholars' views on Fethullah Gulen & Gulen Movement - Part 2

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This video is the second part of the interviews with many prominent academicians who presented papers at the International Conference on Gulen Movement in Chicago.

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Scholars' views on Fethullah Gulen & Gulen Movement - Part 1

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This video is the first part of the interviews with many prominent academicians who presented papers at the International Conference on Gulen Movement in Chicago.

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Fethullah Gulen on a Global Scale

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Fethullah Gulen's legal journey: James C. Harrington (*), director of the Texas Civil Rights Project and a law professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book titled “Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gülen” on the trial of renowned Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in Turkey, which ended with his acquittal being upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeals in 2008.

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Fethullah Gulen's Islamic Ideas and Humanistic Discourse

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Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish intellectual, scholar, and activist whose influence over a new Islamic intellectual, social, and spiritual revival is revealed in this insightful book. Readers will gain a fuller understanding of where Gulen stands on issues of inherent human value and dignity, freedom of thought, education and taking responsibility for creating society and the world. In addition, readers will also see how different perspectives across time, geography, and worldview can still find points on which to engage in dialogue and find a deep resonance.

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