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Renewing Islam by Service - A Christian View of Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet Movement (Hardcover)
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Renewing Islam by Service - A Christian View of Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet Movement (Hardcover)
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Renewing Islam by Service offers a theological account of the
contemporary Turkish faith-based service movement started by
Fethullah Gulen, and placed against the backdrop of changes in
modern Turkish society. The life and works of Gulen are analyzed
against the background of developments in Turkish society, and of
spiritual Islamic tendencies in the transition from the Ottoman
empire to the secular republic. Pim Valkenberg includes stories of
his personal experiences with supporters of this movement, in a
number of different countries, and analyzes the spiritual practices
and the faith-based service of this movement that is also compared
to some important Christian religious movements. Fethullah Gulen
(born 1941 in Erzurum) is sometimes mentioned as one of the most
influential Islamic scholars of the twenty-first century. During
his work as a scholar-preacher in Izmir in the 1970s he started to
provide learning opportunities for his students. He attracted many
supporters and inspired them to form communities that put their
Islamic faith into practice by serving others. When the political
and economic situation of the Turkish republic improved, Gulen and
the Hizmet (service) Movement began to take initiatives in order to
overcome ignorance, disunity and poverty. At the beginning of the
21-st century the Hizmet Movement ormed one of the most influential
networks of Muslims, not only in Turkey but in Europe and the
United States as well. Gulen now lives in the United States where
he still inspires many groups to engage in dialogue initiatives,
excellent schools, public media and service organizatons. However,
these initiatives are often met with suspicion by a number of
different groups - secularists as well as radical Muslims. While
the Hizmet Movement has thus far mainly been studied from a social
scientific perspective, this book claims that Gulen and the Hizmet
can best be understood by researching the religious drive that
empowers them. Since this book has been written by a Christian
theologian, this is done in a comparative theological approach that
not only shows how Gulen and the Hizmet Movement renew Islam by
service, but also how Christians can be inspired by such a
religious renewal movement.
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