Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice: Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development

P. Weller

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97363-6

Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice: Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development

P. Weller

Peace and Security

University of Oxford

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Abstract

This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gülen’s teaching in the Qur’an and Sunnah in dynamic engagement with their geographical, temporal and existential reception, translation, and onward communication. It argues that as Hizmet cannot be understood apart from Gülen and his teaching, Gülen and his teaching cannot be understood apart from Hizmet, while exploring the heritage of both. A more geographically focused case study is set out in author Paul Weller’s Hizmet in Transitions: European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Movement, also published by Palgrave Macmillan (2022).

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	250
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030973636
ISBN (Print)	9783030973629, 9783030973650
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97363-6
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2022

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022. This book is an open access publication.

Funding

The research behind this book was conducted in the course of the author’s employment at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, where it was funded through charitable donations made by anonymous donors for this purpose and channelled via the Dialogue Society, a UK registered charity (No. 1117039) which, on its website, acknowledges its inspiration from Fethullah Gülen. The funding agreement with the College for the research included a clear statement relating to the College’s academic independence and the author’s academic freedom, thus safeguarding the independence, integrity and results of the project. In addition, the project went through a rigorous research ethics scrutiny and approval process at the University of Oxford, as one of the world’s leading research universities and which took account of the University’s Conflict of Interest policy. Within these processes the funding source and arrangements governing the research were made transparent and within which the approaches to be taken to the research were set out and discussed in a detailed way, resulting in the formal ethical approval that undergirded the rigour and integrity of the research.

Funders	Funder number
Dialogue Society

Keywords

Gülen
Hizmet
Turkey
coup
open access

ASJC Scopus subject areas

History
Religious studies
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science

Themes

Faith and Peaceful Relations
Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Governance, Leadership and Trust

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