The Portrait of Fethullah Gülen
Journal Title: Moment Dergi - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
In this study, Fethullah Gülen’s personal life story which began in Erzurum and continued up to West Anatolia and U.S.A., have been handled with a recourse to his religious and political identity as well as his distinct personal features. In this respect, both Erzurum’s exclusive role in terms of bearing the Ottoman’s historical memory and Gülen’s personality formed around the trial with the Republican period have been dealt along with his activities as a member of Nurcu movement and the specific methods that he developed in time. The conditions which rendered Nurcu movement as a powerful and the first trans-national religious community in Turkey, especially after its disengagement from the Classical Nurculuk in 1980, have been weighted up too. Gülen’s discourses and strategies for adapting himself to the changing times and grounds have been analysed. The ethical and political issues that Nurcu movement reserved in its culture characterized by establishing different discourses in domestic and foreign grounds have been investigated. Nurcu movement’s interactions with other Islamic circles, with the National Vision movement and its affairs with Islamism as a whole have been set forth. Eventually, some observations on the reasons underlying the tension between AKP and Nurcu movement and the possible results of this tension have been shared along with some evaluations about the future of this movement.
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Yuksel Taskin
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- DOI 10.17572/mj2016.1.90115
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