Contemporary Islamic Conversations: M. Fethullah Gulen on Turkey, Islam, and the West

Contemporary Islamic Conversations discusses the ideas of Turkey's most significant Muslim figure, M. Fethullah Gulen. Originally published in Turkish by Nevval Sevindi, one of Turkey's top journalists, this edited translation makes Gulen's work and ideas accessible to the English-speaking world for the first time. It includes interviews conducted by the author with Gulen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999. The book explores his ideas regarding Islam and the West, Islam and violence, and religion and the future of the nation-state in Turkey and the Muslim world.

Nevval Sevindi writes for the daily Zaman and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. At the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations Abdullah T. Antepli is the Coordinator of Islamic Chaplaincy and Interfaith Relations