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	Fethullah Gülen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muhammed Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Islamic scholar and thinker, a prolific writer and poet, and the spiritual leader of Gulen's movement.
		Fethullah Gülen is easily the most influential Turkish Islamic figure of his generation, with at least several hundred thousand, more likely several million of adherents.
		Fethullah Gülen was born in Pasinler, Erzurum, in eastern Turkey, in 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fethullah_Gulen (1577 words)

	IDSA Islam & Dialogue Student Association
		Gulen has spent his adult life voicing the cries and laments, as well as the beliefs and aspirations, of Muslims in particular and of humanity in general.
		Gulen was born in the small Anatolian village of Korucuk, comprised of 50-60 houses, in the Hasankale (Pasinler) district of the Erzurum region.
		Gulen ran all of the errands for his family, helped his mother with the housework, and herded their milked cows.
	clubs.ncsu.edu /islam/peacesymposium/fgulen.html (1567 words)

	Table of contents for The statue of our souls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gulen believes the road to justice for all is dependent on the provision of an adequate and appropriate universal education.
		Gulen points out to us the path to freedom and eternal life; sometimes giving us quite simple and direct instructions which can be applied in the worldly contexts in which we find ourselves, sometimes with more complicated descriptions of the spiritual delights to be found on the path and at the destination.
		Gulen adheres to the Qur?anic injunction that the different tribes and nations which were all made by God should learn from each other and hence does not reject all the technical, political and cultural aspects of Western modernity, such as democracy, parliamentarianism, and scientific education.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007472.html (2929 words)

	PULSE of TURKEY No14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fethullah Gulen is an aged man of religion currently being tried in absentia at the Ankara SSC (State Security Court) for activities against secularism and intention to set up a theocratic State.
		Fethullah Gulen has several publications and TV recordings advising his supporters to infiltrate into the Armed Forces, the Police, the Judiciary, Mulkiye (the Political Science Faculty that trains Turkey’s top bureaucrats) and other key positions of the State such as educational institutions.
		Consequently, the clandestine part of Fethullah’s activities concerned the foundation of “isik evleri” (“houses of light” as “light houses” mean something else concerned with navigation in English) and training bright students as hidden Nurcus under the supervision of imams.
	www.turkpulse.com /painful.htm (2528 words)

	M. Fethullah Gulen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Indeed he is a man for all seasons, M. Fethullah Gulen was born in the small village of Korucuk, in Erzurum Province, Eastern Turkey, in November 1938.
		Gulen envisions a 21st century in which we will experience the sprouting of a spiritual dynamics that will dust off the moral values that have remained inactive for quite a long time.
		Fethullah Gulen is profoundly learned in the religious sciences of Islam, but he also mastered the principles and theories of the social and physical sciences of this age.
	www.islamonline.com /cgi-bin/news_service/profile_story.asp?service_id=750 (905 words)

	Turkey: Group Seeks To Create New Generation Of Muslim Believers - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		Gulen is said now to divide his time between the U.S., where he often goes for medical treatment, and Turkey.
		Gulen's views that science and religion are compatible are regularly discussed in "Sizinti," the community's scientific journal.
		Despite Gulen's ties with leading secular politicians -- such as late president Ozal or former Prime Ministers Tansu Ciller and Bulent Ecevit -- many in Turkey's civilian and military establishments view him with suspicion and believe his ultimate goal is to pave the way for an Islamic regime run by the Shari'a.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/06/a6393817-e7d9-4c2c-951a-edbc2131de25.aspx?napage=2 (1684 words)

	Commentary
		Thomas Michel, who studies how “Sufism” and “modernity” are reconciled in Fethullah Gulen’s thoughts, points at an educational philosophy that is reflected in the hundreds of schools established in Turkey and throughout the world as the most reliable evidence for this.
		Ozdalga sees the Gulen movement as being one of the civil interim networks undertaking the role of “mediatorship” and filling the gaps where public institutions have difficulty in integrating citizens with the system during the process of being a modern nation-state.
		Gulen strongly defends “freedom of faith” for non-Muslims as well, says Saritoprak, concluding that Turkey’s experience of an anti-violence attitude in the frame of Islamic teachings is a valid solution in a period when Islam is identified with violence and barbarism.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Commentary/2005/Nov05/18/05.HTM (1489 words)

	The Rumi Forum
		Fethullah Gulen - Our honorary president, Fethullah Gulen, is a Muslim intellectual who inspired a series of social activities, including a transnational education and business network, inter-faith dialogue forums, and multi-cultural encounters.
		Fethullah Gulen is a Turkish influential Muslim intellectual who inspired a series of social activities, including a transnational education and business network, inter-faith dialogue forums, and multi-cultural encounters.
		Fethullah Gulen so distinguished himself that he was asked to begin teaching when he was only fifteen.
	www.rumiforum.org /portraits/fethullah-gulen.php (1553 words)

	Preacher threads path between Western, Islamic cultures
		Gulen's ideas may increasingly enter the debate during a long and pivotal period for the Muslim world: EU membership talks with Turkey scheduled to begin in October.
		Gulen, who sometimes lives in a Turkish-American compound in Stroudsburg, Pa., was too ill from diabetes and other ailments to respond to questions from The Associated Press, said aide Kemal Ozgur.
		Gulen's main influence is Said Nursi, a warrior-scholar who fought to establish modern Turkey in 1923 but later claimed that the state limited religious freedom.
	www.rickross.com /reference/islamic/islamic66.html (806 words)

	Commentary
		Fethullah Gulen managed to establish a vast civil society movement through his inspirational speeches and writings.
		Osman Bakar describes Gulen as an Islamic scholar, whose roots lay in the traditional Islamic sciences and who at the same time is quite familiar with modern Western science.
		Bakar notes that Gulen’s ideas on this matter have been shaped by its deep faithfulness to Sufi intellectualism, even though he is not an initiator of any Sufi order.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Commentary/2005/Nov05/11/02.HTM (585 words)

	Good Recommendation to learn about Fethullah Gulen \| Advocate of Dialogue: Fethullah Gulen \| Ali Unal ...
		As a child, Gulen dreamed of a new golden age by joining spirituality and scientific knowledge, and promoting moral values and dialogue.
		Having read the book 'The advocate of Dialogue: Fethullah Gulen', I now know that there is at least someone who does not only speak at a rhetorical level but also puts his ideas into ptactice.
		Fethullah Gulen is an islamic scholar and he stresses the fact that members of all religions should be tolerant to eachother.
	www.very-clever.com /information/dzidekidak (408 words)

	MILLIYET DAILY / MAIN PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Fethullah Gulen tries to be recognised officially with his "goodwill" contacts to high rank politicians.
		Gulen's aim is to bring an alternative to the secular system," told the authorities to Mr.
		The tapes which were kept in secret places and recorded by Gulen himself for the education of the top staff of the community were brought to the officials by persons from the very staff working for Gulen.
	www.milliyet.com.tr /1999/06/22/english (321 words)

	Fethullah Gulen and his works
		This book is a compilation of some of the wise sayings of Fethullah Gülen, each of which is a criterion or pearl of wisdom by which we may seek and find our way in today’s world, or a light illuminating our way, to live as a responsible, devoted believer.
		Fethullah Gülen achieves a remarkable sanity and clarity in the gentle way he leads the reader away from extreme positions towards the balanced "middle position", the strong and healthy moderation, which has always characterized Islam at its best.
		The flowery language of Fethullah Gülen will at times take you through a different world, the happy world of the future, where "flowers" sway on "sloping hills" and birds sing of spring everywhere, and you will come to know how it can be possible to found such a world.
	www.stormloader.com /kitmir/works.html (790 words)

	Fethullah Gulen: A Religious or Political Leader? The Week in PerspectiveHuman Rights Diary - Turkish Daily News Jun ...
		Gulen has apologized for his speeches, which created the impression that he has a hidden agenda and that he formed secret organizations to seize control of the state.
		During the years Gulen was known for his tolerant and moderate attitude and for his ability to prevent clashes with the secular state, many persons capable of shaping the public opinion, including politicians, journalists and bureaucrats, established close contact with Gulen and his community.
		Gulen is accused of pretending to be a moderate religious man while he works to destroy the secularist system in Turkey.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=13026 (4167 words)

	ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005050719238) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gulen is now loved by the whole world, from Central Asia to Europe, Africa to the US and the Far East to Australia.
		Gulen at the "Fruits of Dialogue" on Tuesday night: "It is very important that people like Fethullah Gulen appear at the forefront and speak in the name of Islam and Muslims, this shows the beauties and positive face of Islam.
		"The Gulen movement is a perfect example of explaining to Americans in general, and the youths in particular, that Islam is not a religion of terror and Muslims are not terrorists.
	www.zaman.com /?bl=columnists&alt=&trh=20050507&hn=19238 (753 words)

	Fethullah Gulen - A Reviving voice of compassion, love, understanding and dialogue
		In a manner that may seem to some paradoxical, to the same extent that he is an example of love, ardor and feeling, he is extraordinarily balanced in his thoughts and acts and in his treatment of matters.
		Despite this and his leadership of a new revival in the intellectual, social and spiritual dimensions of Islam, a revival with a potential to embrace at least a considerable part of the world, he is never proud and remains a humble servant of God Almighty and a most modest friend among human beings.
		During his whole life-time, Fethullah Gülen has tried to voice the cries and laments of all Muslim peoples in particular and the whole of mankind in general, as well as their belief, hopes and aspirations.
	www.stormloader.com /kitmir (446 words)

	Kurdistan Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gulen has been presented as a tolerant, moderate, enlightened religious leader and involved in interfaith dialog, and a peaceful person.
		Gulen went on claiming, “In last 300 years some secret organizations have been controlling this nation." This is clearly a reference to "Shabbetai sect." The followers of Shabbetai Zevi (1625 - 1676) who were converted to Islam, by force of Sultan, from Judaism in late 1600s.
		Gulen calling JITEM for duty, this is a call for civil war and not so mysterious "mystery killings".
	home.cogeco.ca /~kurdistan5/19-1-05-opinion-amed-tky-terror-racism.html (1037 words)

	FETHULLAH GULEN AND HIS LIBERAL "TURKISH ISLAM" MOVEMENT
		Gulen also met with Bulent Ecevit, the long-time leader of Turkey's left and the current prime minister, after which Ecevit reported that their meeting involved a "conversation that focused entirely on religion and philosophy.
		Gulen's June 1999 emergence upon the political scene triggered much controversy among secularist intellectuals, a considerable number of whom have suspected him of using different tactics to reach the same goal as the Islamists.
		Gulen is the sole leader of the movement and the hierarchical order extends from the top to the bottom through an increasing number of abiler (elder brothers).
	www.biu.ac.il /SOC/besa/meria/journal/2000/issue4/jv4n4a4.html (5862 words)

	Turkey: Fethullahci Schools -- A Greenhouse For Central Asian Elites? - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gulen's teaching institutions in Central Asia -- not to be confused with state-sponsored Turkish schools -- include mainly high schools ("lise," in Turkish), but also half a dozen universities.
		In his recently published book on the Gulen movement in Central Asia, Balci describes how every Monday students in fethullahci schools attend the raising of the Turkish flag and sing both their national anthem and that of Turkey.
		Sociologist Turam says Gulen's followers initially put the emphasis on the Turks' Central Asian roots to claim a "blood connection" between their home country and the "newly liberated" former Soviet republics.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/06/413c394a-c79a-4384-a899-bb40dff7284c.html?napage=3 (1545 words)

	No Islamic World Exists Today - The Croft Society Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gulen commented on developments in Turkey and around the world, and answered all the allegations about him.
		But, if you think that Fethullah Gulen takes long walks in the wood and watches with pleasure how a bubbling brook flows into a small pond, you are wrong.
		When his doctor felt he [Gulen] could not continue because of increasing blood pressure, fever, headache and the inability to utter even a single word, he was demanded a break and sent him to take a rest.
	forum.tombraidercommunity.com /index.php?showtopic=81 (2439 words)

	Yeni Şafak - Fehmi Koru - A new beginning - 15.11.2005
		The principal of the school, a follower of Gulen, was from Turkey and he didn't even have time to meet people who would help him cope with the problems he was facing.
		Fethullah Gulen is a man of religion and his followers heed his suggestions with religious fervor, but no Islamic missionary activity has been recorded in any of the schools so far.
		But think of Fethullah Gulen, who has devoted his entire life to humanitarian work, and his followers who dedicated their lives to educate children in faraway places.
	www.yenisafak.com.tr /arsiv/2005/kasim/18/fkoru2.html (1015 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		Gulen's brotherhood, generally considered a moderate Islamic group, has gained popularity in large part through several hundred schools it runs in Turkey, Central Asia and the Middle East.
		The probe into Gulen was opened after a Turkish TV station broadcast in June a tape of the Islamist giving an address to "our friends in the judiciary and public administration," in which he allegedly called on his followers to undermine the state and work for the establishment of a religious order.
		Gulen, in a statement issued from the United States, said the tape was a forgery.
	www.islamonline.net /IOL-English/dowalia/news-2000-sep-01/topnews2.asp (576 words)

	Turkey receives third communications satellite Fethullah Gulen trial opens in Ankara Anger grows among public sector ...
		Gulen, 62, is considered the leader of a branch of the Islamic Nur movement, established by Said Nursi, although he says he has no official title.
		Gulen, who is currently residing in the United States, did not attend the hearing and his lawyer presented a medical report stating that Gulen suffers from heart trouble and diabetes.
		Gulen's movement owns hundreds of schools in Turkey and Central Asia and has ties with leading political parties, which court the votes of his followers.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=20069 (2188 words)

	Re: Turkish nationalism... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Fethullah Gulen Hoja Foundation soon opened a series of private Islamic schools, universities, and student hostels which have attracted an increasing number of Muslim students away from the public school system.
		Imam Hatip and Fethullah Gulen Hoja schools provide separate facilities for male and female students, and encourage female students to wear hijab.
		Fethullah Gulen Hoja hostels also serve as meeting places for members of various jama'ats and tarikats.
	www.talkaboutculture.com /group/soc.culture.usa/messages/1653049.html (568 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-06-23
		Fethullah Gulen, during a telephone call from the US said ''I apologize from all people for pronouncing words that go beyond their purpose against Ataturk,'' and added that some of his statements in the video tapes were to soften the radical Islamists.
		Emphasizing that the target of Gulen's followers is an ''Islamic dictatorship based on theocratic principles'', the report warned that the necessary measures should be taken as soon as possible to determine Gulen's investments of which sources are not known.
		Responding the questions of the journalists about the schools of Fethullah Gulen, Bostancioglu noted that there is not a single school in the records of the National Education Ministry which is registered in the name of Fethullah Gulen and that the schools are registered in the name of foundations.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-06-23.anadolu.html (6459 words)

	A Modern, Mystic Ramadan
		Gulen's thought is heavily influenced by Sufism, the ancient mystical sect of Islam that emphasizes a personal religious experience of God as divine love.
		And Gulen serves as honorary chairman of the Rumi Forum, a Washington area group that promotes interfaith activities and such cultural events as recent performances in Washington and Norfolk of the Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul.
		In Turkey, the Gulen movement is a presence in hundreds of schools that follow a rigorous secular curriculum heavily weighted toward science.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/AR2005100301661.html (644 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-06-22
		Gulen was in good relations with almost everyone in the government.
		Ecevit was told that Gulen and his supporters were trying to take control of the goverment and these claims were supported with documents.
		Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit responded allegations claiming that Fethullah Gulen was behind the crisis between Uzbekistan and Turkey, and schools which belonged to Gulen and the National Education Ministry, were closed in Uzbekistan, by saying, ''Uzbek President has several unjust concerns about Turkey.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-06-22.anadolu.html (4807 words)

	Essentials Of The Islamic Faith :: simplyislam.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fethullah Gulen answers these questions and many others from the viewpoints of rationality, reason, and logic.
		There is no demand to "believe, or else." Rather, he invites the readers to use their God-given intelligence to understand what they are doing here, why they are here, and where they are going.
		Gulen's tears, sincerity, altruism, and love have captured millions of hearts.
	www.simplyislam.com /55722.html (216 words)

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