Fethullah Glens Teaching and Practice: Inheritance, Context, and Interactive D [Paperback]

This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah G?len, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by G?len, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with G?len and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of G?lens teaching in the Quran 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 G?len and his teaching, G?len 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 Wellers Hizmet in Transitions: European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Movement, also published by Palgrave Macmillan (2022).

Wellers book gives us insight into the views of a circle of Hizmet ad-herents, who are not afraid to be critical of the movement at times, while remaining committed, perhaps even devoted, to it. It also includes a valuable interview with G?len himself. (Martin Whittingham, Journal of Dialogue Studies, Vol. 10, 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 Regents Park College, University of Oxford, UK, and an Associate Member of the Universitys Faculty of Theology and Religion.   

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