Title: Hizmet
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.
Subjects: Islam and state, Political and social views, Islam and politics, Islamic education, History, Islam, turkey, Turkey, social conditions
Places: Turkey
People: Fethullah Gülen
Time periods: 20th century