The Gülen Movement in Turkey

ISBN: 9781784535889 出版年：2016 页码：240 Caroline Tee Bloomsbury Publishing

What is the Gulen Movement and why is Turkey's President Erdogan so convinced that the organisation and its charismatic leadthe failed military coup of 15th July 2016? The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey was until recently the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. At iexiled Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who leads from a gated compound in the Pocono Mountains of the USA.The movement's central tenet is that Muslims should engage positively with modernity, especially through mastering the sciences. At hundreds of Gulen-run schools and universities, not only in Turkey but also worldwide and particularly in the United States, instructors have cultivated the next generation of Muslim bankers, biologists, software engineers and entrepreneurs. In this groundbreaking study, Caroline Tee, an expert on the Gulen Movement, analyses the complex attitudes of Gulen and his followers towards secular modernity. Considered against the backdrop of Turkish politics, Gulenist engagemescience is revealed as a key source of the influence the movement has exerted.