Islam in the Age of Global Challenges
On 14-15 November 2008, Georgetown University’s Copley Formal Lounge and Philodemic Room served as the venues for an extraordinary conference on a unique Muslim leader who is finally becoming better known in the United States: Fethullah Gulen. Beginning in the early 1950s, this graduate of the Turk...
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oai:doaj.org-article:2fd88d789e2d4a32966d381d9a12f9aa2021-12-02T19:41:28ZIslam in the Age of Global Challenges10.35632/ajis.v26i1.14302690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/2fd88d789e2d4a32966d381d9a12f9aa2009-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1430https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 On 14-15 November 2008, Georgetown University’s Copley Formal Lounge and Philodemic Room served as the venues for an extraordinary conference on a unique Muslim leader who is finally becoming better known in the United States: Fethullah Gulen. Beginning in the early 1950s, this graduate of the Turkish seminary system began encouraging Turkish businessmen and others to build schools to provide a modern education to as many students as possible. People listened, and there are now over 600 schools in 100 countries. This conference, “Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gulen Movement,” which was sponsored by the Georgetown University President’s Office, the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and the Rumi Forum, attracted both Muslim and non-Muslim academics and others. Of the 170 papers submitted, forty were chosen the address the movement from the following viewpoints: (1) the man, his thoughts and ideas, and how he formed his community and (2) what the movement is doing visà- vis bringingmeaning to people’s lives, who/what were/are his sources, tolerance, dealing with non-Muslims, issues of religious freedom, women, peace issues, interfaith dialogue, the role of his schools in peacemaking, charitable organizations, financial sources, and globalization ... Jay WilloughbyInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 26, Iss 1 (2009) |
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On 14-15 November 2008, Georgetown University’s Copley Formal Lounge
and Philodemic Room served as the venues for an extraordinary conference
on a unique Muslim leader who is finally becoming better known in the
United States: Fethullah Gulen. Beginning in the early 1950s, this graduate
of the Turkish seminary system began encouraging Turkish businessmen and
others to build schools to provide a modern education to as many students as
possible. People listened, and there are now over 600 schools in 100 countries.
This conference, “Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative
Perspectives of the Gulen Movement,” which was sponsored by the Georgetown
University President’s Office, the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding, and the Rumi Forum, attracted both Muslim
and non-Muslim academics and others.
Of the 170 papers submitted, forty were chosen the address the movement
from the following viewpoints: (1) the man, his thoughts and ideas,
and how he formed his community and (2) what the movement is doing visà-
vis bringingmeaning to people’s lives, who/what were/are his sources, tolerance,
dealing with non-Muslims, issues of religious freedom, women,
peace issues, interfaith dialogue, the role of his schools in peacemaking,
charitable organizations, financial sources, and globalization ...
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