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Record Nr.

UNINA9910567788003321

Autore

Weller Paul

Titolo

Fethullah Gülen’s teaching and practice : inheritance, context, and interactive development / / Paul Weller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages)

Disciplina

297.2

297.092

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Turkey

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Person, Places and Developments -- Chapter 3: Biography, Context and Substance in Interplay -- Chapter 4: Islamic Spirituality and Social Processing -- Chapter 5: Learning from Loss? -- Chapter 6: Inheritance, Methodology, Integrity and Creativity.

Sommario/riassunto

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). Paul Weller is Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Religion and Society and UK Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK, and an Associate Member of the University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion.