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Abant Global Insights
Abant Platform's 2014 Global Insights key note speaker was Mr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil. Global Insights is a special discussion series organized by Abant Platform that aims to explore challenging issues of our region and the world. Each Global Insight program features a prominent figure with global credentials and the meetings attract a select group of participants from a variety of backgrounds and worldviews.
The Muslim World and Politics in Transition
Examines the impact of the Gulen movement on the contemporary Muslim world.
Reading Islam
In Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining anthropological observation with textual and genealogical analysis, he illustrates how the modes of thought and social engagement promoted by these two communities are the outcome of complex intellectual entanglements with modern discourses about science, education, the self, and Muslims’ place and responsibility in society. In this way, Reading Islam sheds light on the formation of new generations of faithful and socially active Muslims over the last thirty years and on their impact on the turn of Turkey from an assertive secularist Republic to an Islamic-oriented form of governance.
Remaking Muslim Politics
There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this contest is sure to be one of the defining political events of the twenty-first century. Bringing together twelve engaging essays by leading specialists focusing on individual countries, this pioneering book examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its lessons for our understanding of religion and politics in modern times. ...
Toward an Islamic Enlightenment
M. Hakan Yavuz offers an insightful and wide-ranging study of the Gulen Movement, one of the most controversial developments in contemporary Islam. Founded in Turkey by the Muslim thinker Fethullah Gulen, the Gulen Movement aims to disseminate a ''moderate'' interpretation of Islam through faith-based education. Its activities have fundamentally altered religious and political discourse in Turkey in recent decades, and its schools and other institutions have been established throughout Central Asia and the Balkans, as well as western Europe and North America. Consequently, its goals and modus operandi have come under increasing scrutiny around the world. Yavuz introduces readers to the movem...
Küreselleşme
"Abant Toplantılarının konusu bir yana, yönteminin bana çok heyecan verdiğini söylemeliyim. Ne yazık ki bu yöntem başka çevrelerce de benimsenip genişletilmiyor; Abant ile sınırlı kalıyor. Kastettiğim şey bu memleketin insanları çeşitli ideolojilere, siyasi tercihlere sahip olabildikleri halde paylaşılan değerlerin geniş ölçüde örtüşmesidir. Burada kendilerine sağcı veya solcu denen, mümin veya münkir denen insanların belirli konuları özgürce, birbirlerine kızmadan, küsmeden tartışmaları bana çok önemli geliyor. Umarım daha önceki yıllarda olduğu gibi küreselleşme konusunda da aynı şey tekrarlanacak. Türkiye’de demokrasi yaşanacaksa u...
Savaş ve Demokrasi
"6.’sını idrak ettiğimiz Abant Platformu’nun bu yılki konusu, “Savaş ve Demokrasi”.Danışmanlar Kurulu böyle bir konuya karar verdiği zaman Irak müdahalesi gündemde değildi. Bir ihtimal olarak gündemdeydi ama gerçekleşmemişti. Fakat kendi aramızda konuştuğumuzda dünyanın birçok yerinde zaten savaşların şu veya bu şekilde sürdüğünü gördüğümüzdeve bu savaşların içinde doğrudan veya dolaysız yer alan aktörlerin demokrasi yaftasıyla kendisini dünyaya empoze etmiş aktörler olduğunu anladığımızda bağdaştırması zor bir durumu nasıl açıklarız? diye düşündük ve konunun “Savaş ve Demokrasi” olmasını kararlaştırdık. Şimdi ...
Turkish Islam and the Secular State
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.
Renewing Islam by Service
Renewing Islam by Service offers a theological account of the contemporary Turkish faith-based service movement started by Fethullah Gülen, and placed against the backdrop of changes in modern Turkish society. The life and works of Gülen are analyzed against the background of developments in Turkish society, and of spiritual Islamic tendencies in the transition from the Ottoman empire to the secular republic. Pim Valkenberg includes stories of his personal experiences with supporters of this movement, in a number of dierent countries, and analyzes the spiritual practices and the faith-based service of this movement that is also compared to some important Christian religious movements.
Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey
In contemporary Turkey, a plethora of Muslim NGOs, spanning the sectarian divide between Sunni and Alevi Muslims, has called into question statist sovereignty over Islam. Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey is an ethnographic study of these institutions and their distinctive, nongovernmental politics of religious freedom.
