Austinites' Tour of Turkey
Itinerary included amazing scenery and ruins but also lots of interaction with Turkish families and officials.
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The Gulen movement, that's probably one of their key commitments besides education, is interfaith dialogue. Many of them would say that interfaith dialogue is another form of education. And so, interfaith dialogue in their view is a way in which all of us living in the planet, whether we are people of faith or whether we're not, can come to understand each other and build relationships with one another so we can peacefully co-exist. Read More...Topics
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Austinites' Tour of Turkey
Itinerary included amazing scenery and ruins but also lots of interaction with Turkish families and officials.
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Contributions
- The Gülen Movement: Its Nature and Identity
- Gülen's Contribution to a Middle Way Islam in Southeast Asia
- Combatting Terrorism in Britain: Gülen's Ideas
- The Work of Fethullah Gülen and the Role of Non-Violence in a Time of Terror
- The Fethullah Gülen Movement as a Transnational Phenomenon
- Civilian Response to Ethno-religious Terrorism
The Fethullah Gülen Movement-I
- Discursive and Organizational Strategies of the Gülen Movement
- Fethullah Gülen: A Vision of Transcendent Education
- Understandings of "Community" within the Gülen Movement
- Tolerance Is Love: Gülen, Ghazali, and Rûmî
- Progressive Islamic Thought, Civil Society and the Gulen Movement in the National Context
The Fethullah Gülen Movement-II
- Reading the World in Fethullah Gulen's Educational Philosophy
- "The Cry of the Nightingale" Fethullah Gulen – a Modern-Day Rumi?
- Pedagogical Model of Gulen and Modern Theories of Learning
- Global Peaceful Social Innovation: The Case of Gulen Network
- Islam and Terror: From the Perspective of Fethullah Gülen
The Architect of Our SoulsHumanity is terribly in need of people with inner depths and sincerity now, more than anything else, for people who suffer and cry for the sins and errors of others; who look forward to forgiveness and pardon of others before their own... Read More... |
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