The Gulen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity
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The Gulen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity

The Gulen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity

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Caroline Tee (Author)  

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What is the Gulen Movement and why is Turkey's President Erdogan so convinced that the organisation and its charismatic leader were behind the 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 its head is the exiled 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 engagement with modern science is revealed as a key source of the influence the movement has exerted.
Caroline Tee is Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St.Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, and Research and Policy Adviser at the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS), London. She has been the recipient of a major John Templeton Foundation Grant (2013-2015) and has published numerous articles on Islam and society in modern Turkey.
  • Contributor: Caroline Tee
  • Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • ISBN13: 9781784535889
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 138x216x25mm
  • Packaged Weight: 427
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Release Date: 2016-09-06
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Caroline Tee is Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St.Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, and Research and Policy Adviser at the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS), London. She has been the recipient of a major John Templeton Foundation Grant (2013-2015) and has published numerous articles on Islam and society in modern Turkey.

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