Blue Dome Press: 35 books
Turkey Interrupted
Derailing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This book strives to explain what has happened in Turkey in 2013 and 2014 following the onset of major corruption investigations incriminating people close to the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including his son Bilal Erdogan, various ministers, and several business people. It shows how...
Where is Turkey Headed?
Culture Battles in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
"Where is Turkey Headed? Culture Battles in Turkey" looks into the dynamics of social change in Turkey from the broad perspective of a German journalist who lived in Istanbul for nearly two decades. With a panoramic view of the history of the Turkish republic, including the late Ottoman...
Hizmet
Questions and Answers on the Hizmet Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
“Hizmet”—or the Gülen Movement referring to name of the renowned Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen—originated in 1970s’ Turkey as a faith-inspired initiative to improve educational opportunities for a local community; since then, it has grown into a transnational educational, inter-cultural...
by Mustafa Mencutekin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Mencutekin takes on the role of ideology in the history of Turkish cinema critically analyzing the values and ideas that have shaped the message and stories of Turkish movies. This study is based on the thesis that to truly explore the specific issues currently vexing Turkish cinema, one has to confront...
Reflections on Reason, Religion, and Tolerance
Engaging with Fethullah Gulen's Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
This is an attempt to reflect on Islam as it appears in the context of Fethullah Gulen's teachings, an influential Turkish-Muslim scholar who inspired a movement of education and interfaith dialogue. Grinell's extensive study of Islam and of Gulen allows him to pinpoint a unique expression of values...
Language of the Heart
A Sufi Interpretation of Form (Sura) and Meaning (Mana) in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This book seeks to examine how Sufi thought might provide critical understanding of contemporary life and a pathway towards the recovery of a more meaningful existence. Rumi’s mystical teachings are of great value at a time of rampant materialism and indiscriminate consumerism, and have the potential...
Ottoman Cuisine
A Rich Culinary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Going all the way back to earliest Ottoman cookbooks, chef M. Omur Akkor has collected a rich sampling of Ottoman meals. These recipes, taken from great chefs of the Ottoman's great palaces and from the ordinary kitchens of Ottoman homes, provide a delicious introduction to the kind of cuisines that...
A Contemporary Renaissance
Gulen's Philosophy for a Global Revival of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Ashrati's book is a study of intellectual framework laid out by Fethullah Gulen in his call for the revival of humanity's changing power. Gulen, a prominent scholar of Islam and a social activist, is the inspiration behind the global network of education, charity and interfaith dialogue. This book...
Turkey's Path to Democratization
Barriers, Actors, Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In this timely book, the author addresses a number of key questions about Turkey's hard road to democratization. Is it still underway? What are the hindrances or blockages? What are the motivations and roles of civil society groupings in this evolving democracy? What is the current stance of and role...
by Sermed Ogretim
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
An old man shares his secret for happiness. The two halves of the brain debate the meaning of life. A young man explains why he chose life over death. An explorer and his team are trapped in a hostile environment, the fate of their extremely important mission in doubt. A common tradesman must solve...
Turkey’s Democracy Saga
The Struggle Against Interventionist Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Over the last decade, the Middle East has been in a state of extraordinary, at times violent, flux. Once the region’s biggest empire, then its "model" democracy, and always the bridge between the region and the West, Turkey has played a unique role in these movements—sometimes as inspirational...
by Bradley Steffens
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Despite being one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the Abbasid caliphate, Alhasan Ibn al-Haytham makes a quiet living in Basra as a scholar and copyist. He's preparing to write a new treatise on vision and light when a strange man wearing unusual clothes kidnaps him and takes him to Cairo,...
A Muslim Sage Among Peers
Fethullah Gulen in Dialogue with Christians
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This volume puts Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet movement in dialogue with Christian theologians, philosophers and organizations concerning areas of shared interest. The Christian voices represented in these constructed dialogues are diverse: contemporary and historical, Catholic and Protestant, theological...
Peace and Dialogue in a Plural Society
Contributions of the Hizmet Movement at a time of Global Tensions
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
In a world that is too often seen as a cloash of civilizations, some believe there is another way, a path that involves engagement, dialogue, and respect. In Thomas Michel's new book, Peace and Dialogue in a Plural Society, he explores how Fethullah Gulen is one of those speaking most vocally in favor...