Hizmet
Subtitle: questions and answers on the Gülen Movement
By: Muhammed Çetin
Publisher: Blue Dome Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781935295174
Subjects: Islam and state; Political and social views; Islam and politics; Islamic education; History
Description: Hizmet or the Gulen Movement referring to the name of the renowned Turkish scholar Fethullah Gulen 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 and interfaith movement. This book is intended to summarize and represent the conclusions of much of the academic work on Hizmet in a manner more easily accessible to the lay person or non-specialist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]) and index.