Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gulen Movement| Dates: | 26 October 2007 - (SOAS)
27 October 2007 - (LSE) | | Times: | 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
| Venues:
| School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Aldwych, WC2A 2AE
| Organisers:
| University of Birmingham, Dialogue Society, Irish School of Ecumenics, Leeds Metropolitan University, London Middle East Institute, Middle East Institute and SOAS University of London
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To attend is free, however, please register online at GulenConference.org.uk
The Muslim world has been undergoing radical social, economic, political and intellectual change since its encounter with the West. How Muslims cope with the challenges they face necessarily impacts on the wider, non-Muslim world. The underlying aim of this conference is to examine the impact of the Gülen movement on the contemporary Muslim world in transition and the relations between the West and Islam in general. As a leading transnational faith-based movement originating from Turkey with a universal educational and interfaith agenda, the Gülen movement aims to promote creative and positive relations between the West and the Muslim world and articulate a constructive position on issues such as democracy, multiculturalism, globalisation, and interfaith dialogue in the context of secular modernity. Fethullah Gülen's re-reading of religious texts in the context of a
renewal and re-interpretation in Islam that can take part in the building of a fully human society in Europe will also feature in the deliberations of the conference.
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