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Book Fethullah Gulen

Download or read book Fethullah Gulen written by Jon Pahl and published by Blue Dome Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first critical biography of Fethullah Gulen in English, historian Jon Pahl takes us on a journey where we discover wisdom and controversy, from 1940's Turkey to the U.S. in the twenty-first century. Pahl tells the story of a pious Muslim boy from a tiny and remote Turkish village who on the one hand has inspired a global movement of millions of individuals dedicated to literacy, social enterprise, and interreligious dialogue, but who on the other hand has been monitored by Turkish police, seen as a threat by autocrats, and recently declared number one enemy by the current Turkish dictator. With lively prose and extensive research, Pahl traces Fethullah Gulen's life and thought in its contexts, states clearly his own positions, and then lets readers draw their own conclusions from the evidence about this undeniably significant historical figure.

Book The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds

Download or read book The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds written by Burak Bilgehan Özpek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2013, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process in order to settle the Kurdish question through peaceful means. However, this sanguine atmosphere gradually disappeared, before finally collapsing after the general elections of 7 June 2015. This book addresses the question of why the peace building attempts that culminated between 2013 and 2015 failed. It deals with the historical background of the Kurdish question and contemporary complexities of the Turkish politics to explain how they eventually jeopardized the peace process. This is an important and relevant research question because the Kurdish question has been viewed as a variable shaping Turkey’s domestic politics and its foreign relations. The Kurdish question's influence on Turkish foreign policy is not confined to its neighbors. Turkey's relations with the United States and the European Union was also shaped by the issues stemmed from the Kurdish question. As this was the first serious peace attempt in a conflict that lasted over three decades, examination of why it failed will inform any future attempts at peace and will help pinpoint the potential path that Turkey might face in both the domestic and international realm. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in Turkey and the Kurdish issue, peacekeeping, security studies and Middle East Politics.

Book Political Quietism in Islam

Download or read book Political Quietism in Islam written by Saud al-Sarhan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Islam – whether via the derivatives of 'Political Islam' or 'Islamism' – has come to be seen as an 'activist' force in social and political spheres worldwide. What such representations have neglected is the strong countervailing tradition of political quietism. Political quietism in Islam holds that it is not for Muslims to question or oppose their leaders. Rather, the faithful should concentrate on their piety, prayer, religious rituals and personal quest for virtue. This book is the first to analyze the history and meaning of political quietism in Islamic societies. It takes an innovative cross-sectarian approach, investigating the phenomenon and practice across both Sunni and Shi'i communities. Contributors deconstruct and introduce the various forms of political quietisms from the time of the prophetic revelations through to the contemporary era. Chapters cover issues ranging from the politics of public piety among the women preachers in Saudi Arabia, through to the legal discourses in the Caucasus, the different Shi'i communities in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and Pakistan, and the Gülen movement in Azerbaijan. The authors describe a wide range of political quietisms and assess the continuing significance of the tradition, both to the study of Islam and to the modern world today.

Book Spin Wars and Spy Games

Download or read book Spin Wars and Spy Games written by Markos Kounalakis and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As most long-standing news outlets have shuttered their foreign bureaus and print operations, the role of GNNs as information collectors and policy influencers has changed in tandem. Western GNNs are honored for being untethered to government entities and their ability to produce accurate yet critical situational analyses. However, with the emergence of non-Western GNNs and their direct relationships to the state, the independent nature of our global news cycle has been vastly manipulated. In Spin Wars and Spy Games, Kounalakis uses his interviews with an expansive and diverse set of GNN professionals to deliver a vivid depiction of the momentous sea change in mass media production. He traces the evolution of global news networks from the twentieth century to now, revealing today's drastically altered news business model that places precedence on networks leveraging global power. This eye-opening narrative transforms our understanding of why countries like Russia and China invest heavily in their news media, and how the GNN framework operates in conjunction with state strategy and diplomatic sensitivity. Profoundly meticulous and insightful, this seminal work on the current state of transnational journalism gives readers a first-hand look at how global media powers shape policy and morph the public's consumption of information.

Book The G  len Movement

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Rose Ebaugh
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-12-01
  • ISBN : 1402098944
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book The G len Movement written by Helen Rose Ebaugh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about an Islamic movement, the Gülen Movement, that is rooted in a moderate version of Islam and that promotes interfaith and intercultural dialog and global peace. Based on interviews with supporters of the movement in Turkey and in the U.S. and visits to Gülen-inspired schools, hospitals, newspapers and relief organizations, the book describes a movement that has millions of supporters in Turkey and that has spread to over 100 countries on five continents.

Book Hizmet Means Service

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin E. Marty
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-09-22
  • ISBN : 0520285174
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Hizmet Means Service written by Martin E. Marty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hizmet Means Service is an examination of the Hizmet movement. Hizmet is named for its focus on service, but it is also often called the Gulen movement, after the Turkish intellectual and inspiration for the movement, Fethullah Gulen, who is known for his contribution to improved interfaith relations. This book studies Hizmet in twelve chapters written by contributors from around the world. This book does not presume that all readers are familiar with Hizmet, but we move beyond mere introductions into scholarly analysis of Fethullah Gulen and the manifestations of this movement"--Provided by publisher.

Book Turkey s Democratization Process

Download or read book Turkey s Democratization Process written by Carmen Rodriguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the 1980 coup d’état Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of this process in a Turkish context, this book brings together contributions from prominent, Turkish, English, French, and Spanish scholars. Turkey’s Democratization Process utilises the theoretical framework of J.J. Linz and A.C. Stepan in order to assess the complex process of democratization in Turkey. This framework takes into account five interacting features of Turkey’s polity when making this assessment, namely: whether the underlying legal and socioeconomic conditions are conducive for the development of a free and participant society; if a relatively autonomous political society exists; whether there are legal guarantees for citizens’ freedoms; if there exists a state bureaucracy which can be used by a democratic government; and whether the type and pace of Turkish economic development contributes to this process. Examining the Turkish case in light of this framework, this book seeks to combine analyses that will help assess the process of democratization in Turkey to date and will be of interest to scholars and researchers interested in Turkish Politics, Democratization and Middle Eastern Studies more broadly.

Book Gentle Giant of the Glen

Download or read book Gentle Giant of the Glen written by Joseph P Hradisky Jr and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-07-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story related to the Ithaca Saga taking place in Montour Falls and Watkins Glen, New York. It is about the finding, and recruiting, of a hero to join the fight against the demon invasion. The gentle giant, and his future wife, are two more important pieces to the quest army being formed by the mage Jonathan Tanner Thomas aka Jon Tom. Each person who joins the quest army makes it stronger and one step closer to winning the war.

Book The True Colours of Coral Glen

Download or read book The True Colours of Coral Glen written by Juliette Forrest and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral sees the world around her through a rainbow of colours not visible to others - a day full of adventure is Treasure Island Gold but one with a maths test is Stormy Canyon Grey. When her beloved grandma dies, Coral can't find the colour to match how heartbroken she is. She makes a bargain with a ghostly boy - she'll stop an evil spirit from breaking the spell imprisoning him in a graveyard and he'll find a way for her to say goodbye properly to Grandma.

Book Chronicles of the Glen

Download or read book Chronicles of the Glen written by Keith Erwin Brower and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the middle of the last century, where the Parkland meets the Great Plains in Western Canada, did present its challenges but also furnished its rewards. The simplicity of life, the activities undertaken out of necessity, the sense of human strength against nature are all recorded in this series of short stories about a young boy raised in this era prior to him reaching school age. For the young amongst us it gives one a chance to understand how things were without any "screens", indoor plumbing or running water and what activities filled our lives. For others it will bring back very familiar memories of your own by-gone days....

Book Glen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Richardson
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011-08-02
  • ISBN : 1257955861
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Glen written by Samuel Richardson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Glen Orrin Richardson, son of Justin V. and Hortense Earl Richardson, compiled by Hope R. Barrowes. Cover design and book layout by Samuel Richardson, owner of Silver Storm Imaging and Printing. Contains Glen's journal entries, letters he's written and his achievements. Also contains writing to or about him by his family and friends. Included is a scrapbook of his life.

Book Disarming Iraq

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glen Segell
  • Publisher : Glen Segell Publishers
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 1901414264
  • Pages : 666 pages

Download or read book Disarming Iraq written by Glen Segell and published by Glen Segell Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turkish Islam and the Secular State

Download or read book Turkish Islam and the Secular State written by M. Hakan Yavuz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of its kind, M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito explore recent reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islamist modernist Fethullah Gülen movement. As one of the most significant religious movements to emerge in Turkey in the past fifty years, the Gülen movement combines a devotion to Islam with love for modern learning. especially modern science. This groundbreaking work focuses on and explains the nexus of complex historical and political developments that have contributed to the transformation of Islam in Tukey and to the movement's sphere of influence stretching into the Balkans and central Asia through the establishment of schools outside Turkey. The book cogently traces the origin of Gülen's ideology and his early efforts to propagate his views through educational activities. It details the various strategies employed by Gülen's followers to put his ideas into practice, both in Turkey and around the world. Contributors describe its intellectual and religious formation, its spread across Turkey and Central Asia, and its influence on citizens outside the movement, including leading Turkish politicians.

Book Journal of the American Medical Association

Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book TRAVELS IN THE SLAVONIC PROVINCES OF TURKEY IN EUROPE

Download or read book TRAVELS IN THE SLAVONIC PROVINCES OF TURKEY IN EUROPE written by G. MUIR MACKENZIE, A. P. IRBY and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics

Download or read book International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics written by Frank Pierce Foster and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medical Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Frederick Shrady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1138 pages

Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: