THE CONCEPT OF DIALOGUE: A STUDY OF FETHULLAH GULEN AND SAYYID QUTB

• Authors: Soffar Mohamed
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It might be surprising to compare Fethullah Gulen and Sayyid. The common link between them drew the author's attention while he was on a visit to Turkey. He noticed that works of Sayyid qutb, especially his famous The Shades of The Quran, were taught at Gulen's seminary in Istanbul. Based on Foucault's less famous notion of political spirituality, this article attempts to trace common structural factors in the thought of both men, which fall in an area that it calls the politics of Sufism. The difference, however, between Gulen's and Qutb's modes of political action can be attributed to their respective notions of time. Hence the one opts for dialogue and the other opts for confrontation.

Keywords

EN

DIALOGUE; GULEN; POLITICAL SPIRITUALITY; QUTB; SUFISM

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 24
• Pages: 5-28
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Soffar Mohamed

• Mohamed Soffar, Department of Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA080227