Gülen-Inspired Hizmet in Europe. The Western Journey of a Turkish Muslim Movement

This book provides a broad presentation of Gülen's thought and practice. These issues are discussed in the first part of the book. The second part presents six case studies from countries where the name of Gülen has been attached to a great variety of social activities in the field of education, media, business, dialogue, and the support of integration and defence of human rights. These countries are Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Germany, and Albania as the centre of Muslims in the Balkans. Although the participants of Hizmet are quite small in number and work in an extremekly decentralizsed way, they are among the best educated and most socially active of the Turkish-speaking communities in their countries. This is therefore an important study of a group of Muslims who cannot simply be categorized as 'conservative' of'progressive', 'pietistic' or 'political'.edition: 1nrpages: 311status: publishe