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The Gülen Movement
"The existence of social conflicts and the lack of social cohesion are at the center of public debates in many societies. In recent years, these issues have often been linked to Muslims and their religious beliefs. The Islamic response to these allegations and the social problems evoking them has been diverse: this book concerns the reply of a transnational movement of volunteers inspired by the teachings of Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Muslim scholar. This study represents an attempt to incorporate the Gülen Movement--also called the Volunteers Movement--into a social movement theory approach. In pluralist societies, there are different communication structures and different ways of conflic...
Gülen-inspired Hizmet in Europe
This book discusses the Western journey of a contemporary Muslim movement initiated by Fethullah Gülen in Turkey in the 60s. Although its participants are a small and often less visible group among the Muslim minorities in Western countries, they are very active in social life. This study provides a broad presentation of a group of Turkish Muslims.
Displaying the Orient
Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place. Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts and presented to nineteenth-century men and women as the world in microcosm, giving a quick and seemingly realistic impression of distant places. elik examines the display of Islamic cultures at nineteenth-century world's fairs, focusing on the exposition architecture. She asserts that certain sociopolitical and cultural trends now crucial to our understanding of historical transformations in both th...
Being a Muslim
The word Muslim is commonly used like a brand name: One is either Muslim or not. In this book, Celik expounds on the literal meaning of being a muslim, which is the verbal noun submitter. She explains that we are a submitter (muslim) if and when we submit our mind, heart, and actions to God's Will. From this perspective, this book appeals not only to those who profess a Muslim identity, but to all who strive to find answers to their existential questions and submit to their Creator.
Islamic Thought
This excellent book is translated from the original Arabic book 'Alfikr Al Islami' by Sheikh Muhammad ibn Muhammad Ismael Abduh, an Islamic jurist, 'alim, writer from Azhar, Egypt.The Cultural Invasion of the Muslim Lands by the West has befogged the minds of the Muslims and turned them away from the Islamic Culture (Thaqaafah Al Islamiyyah). The West ensured that its civilization (hadhaarah) was spread all over the Muslim lands in the form of laws, concepts and authority. This was due to the decline in the authority of Islam, and the deviation of the good task from its course and because of the misleading propaganda that waged its campaign against Islam and its culture. As the Ummah now rea...
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
"Investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim women wearing a headscarf or hijab"--
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective
We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world. Spatial organization (places and neighbourhoods) matters significantly in some cities in reproducing class relations and ethno-racial hierarchies, but may be much less important in others. The degree and the impact of segregation depend upon contextual diversity. By emphasizing the importance of contextual diversity in the study of urban residential segregation, the book questions currently popular urban theories such as global city, neoliberal urbanism, and gentrification. These theories tend to dissociate cities from their ...
Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies
The conscious construction of urban space
“Buyurdum ki....” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond
This book is dedicated to Claudia Römer and brings together 33 contributions spanning a period from the 15th to the 20th century and covering the wide range of topics with which the honouree is engaged. The volume is divided into six parts that present current research on language, literature, and style as well as newer approaches and perspectives in dealing with sources and terminologies. Aspects such as conquest, administration, and financing of provinces are found as well as problems of endowments and the circulation of goods in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Another main topic is dedicated to minorities and their role and situation in various provinces and cities of the Ottoman Empire, as represented by various sources. But also topics like conversion, morality and control are illuminated. Finally, the volume provides an insight into the late Ottoman and early republican period, in which some previously unpublished sources (such as travel letters, memoirs) are presented and (re)discussed. The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.
The Remaking of Istanbul
Zeynep elik examines the changing face of Istanbul during the period when European cultural and economic influence intensified, integrating architectural analysis with discussion of broader issues of urban design and historical change. Zeynep elik examines the changing face of Istanbul during the period when European cultural and economic influence intensified, integrating architectural analysis with discussion of broader issues of urban design and historical change.
