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A 20-Year-Old Study the Fethullah Gulen Group: Where Does It Stand in Relatıon to the Nurju Movement?

Year 2017, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 169 - 198, 15.10.2017
https://doi.org/10.17550/akademikincelemeler.335295

Abstract

Based on twenty
in-depth interviews with two types of nurju participants, businessmen nurjus
and intellectual/cadre nurjus, I inquire how nurjus perceive the Fethullah
Gulen group in relation to the Nurju movement. The research findings show that
the nurjus too differ among themselves –as non-nurjus do- in evaluating the
political and ideological position of the Fethullah Gulen group. With a careful
avoidance from broad generalizations, I offer a class-based analysis for the
interpretation of the differing views.

References

  • Aras, Bulent and Omer Caha (2000): “Fethullah Gulen and His Liberal ‘Turkish Islam’ Movement” in www.wisdom.net
  • Camci, Selcuk and Kudret Unal (1999): Fethullah Gulenin Konusma ve Yazilarinda Hosgoru ve Diyalog Iklimi (Tolerance and Dialog in the Writings and Speeches of Fethullah Gulen): Izmir:Merkur Yay.
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20 Yıllık Bir Araştırma: Nurculuk Hareketiyle İlişkisi İçinde Fethullah Gülen Grubu Nerede Durmaktadır?

Year 2017, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 169 - 198, 15.10.2017
https://doi.org/10.17550/akademikincelemeler.335295

Abstract

İşadamı nurcular ve entelektüel/kadro nurculardan oluşan iki grup nurcu katılımcılarla
yapılan 20 derinlemesine mülakat verilerine dayanarak bu makale, nurcuların Nur hareketiyle ilişkileri bağlamında Fethullah Gülen grubunu
nasıl algıladıklarını incelemektedir. Araştırma bulguları, Fethullah Gülen
grubunun siyasal ve ideolojik pozisyonlarını değerlendirirken nurcu olmayanlar
gibi bizzat nurcuların da kendi aralarında farklılaştıklarını göstermektedir.
Geniş kapsamlı genellemeler yapmaktan dikkatle kaçınarak makale,
bu farklılaşan görüşlere sınıf-temelli bir analiz sunmaktadır.

References

  • Aras, Bulent and Omer Caha (2000): “Fethullah Gulen and His Liberal ‘Turkish Islam’ Movement” in www.wisdom.net
  • Camci, Selcuk and Kudret Unal (1999): Fethullah Gulenin Konusma ve Yazilarinda Hosgoru ve Diyalog Iklimi (Tolerance and Dialog in the Writings and Speeches of Fethullah Gulen): Izmir:Merkur Yay.
  • Gulen, Fethullah (1996): Fasildan Fasila (From Chapter to Chapter); Izmir: Nil Yay.
  • Evans, Peter (1979): Dependent Development: The Triple Alliance of Multinational, State and Local Capital in Brazil (New Jersey: Princeton University Press).
  • Kaynak Yayinlari (1999): Bati ve Irtica (the West and Fundamentalism), (Istanbul: Kaynak Yay.). No editor.
  • Komecoglu, Ugur (2000): “Kutsal ile Kamusal: Fethullah Gulen Cemaat Hareketi” (the Sacred and the Public: the Fethullah Gulen Community Movement) in Nilufer Gole (ed.): Islamin Yeni Kamusal Yuzleri (New Public Faces of Islam); Istanbul: Metis Yay.
  • Mardin, Serif (1989): Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi (Albany: SUNY Press).
  • Nereid, Camilla Trud (1997): In the Light of Said Nursi: Turkish Nationalism and the Religious Alternative (London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd.).
  • Shaffir, William B. and Robert A. Stebbins (1991): Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View Of Qualitative Research (Newbury Park: Sage Publications).
  • Yavuz, M. Hakan (1998): The Construction of Islamic Identity in Turkey: 1960-1997 (Unpublished Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison).
  • ---------------------- (1999): “Toward an Islamic Liberalism?: The Nucu Movement and Fethullah Gulen” in Middle East Journal, Vol.53, No. 4.
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Fahri Çakı

Publication Date October 15, 2017
Submission Date August 18, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2017 Volume: 12 Issue: 2

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APA Çakı, F. (2017). 20 Yıllık Bir Araştırma: Nurculuk Hareketiyle İlişkisi İçinde Fethullah Gülen Grubu Nerede Durmaktadır?. Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 12(2), 169-198. https://doi.org/10.17550/akademikincelemeler.335295

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