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The house of service : the Gulen movement and Islam's third way /

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David Tittensor offers a different perspective on the Gülen movement, a Turkish Muslim educational activist network that emerged in the 1960s and has grown into a global empire with an estimated worth of $25 billion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tittensor, David (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Religion and global politics.
Subjects:
Gülen Hizmet Movement.
Gülen Hizmet Movement
Islam > Turkey > 21st century.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Islam
Turkey
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Islam.
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Gülen movement in context. Islam in Turkey: continuities in spite of change
  • All is not what it seems: a critical appraisal of modern Turkey
  • The development of a vision
  • The Gülen movement in practice. Voices from within, voices from without: movement teachers and students speak for themselves
  • Divergence between the mission and the message: interrogation of a double standard
  • Placing the Gülen movement in the global order: the need for a new typology
  • A singular movement with a modern day mission.