Table of Contents

Author and editor biographies Acknowledgments Fethullah Gülen, the movement and this book: an introductory overview Part I: The Gülen movement in the public sphere 1. Preaching by example and learning for life: understanding the Gülen hizmet in the context of religious philanthropy and civil religion Greg Barton 2. From Ghandi to Gülen: the habitus of non-aggressive action Mustafa E. Gurbuz and Bandana Purkayastha 3. Organizing civil society: the Gülen movement’s Abant Platform Etga Ugur Part II: Muslim politics beyond post-Islamism 4. Beyond post-Islamism: the transformation of Turkish Islamism to non-Islamism Ihsan Yilmaz 5. Muslims and liberalization: the case of the Gülen movement Ramazan Kilinç 6. The influence of the Gülen movement in the emergence of a Turkish cultural ‘Third Way’ Marie Elisabeth Maigre-Branco 7. Fethullah Gülen, Turkey and the European Union Paul Weller Part III: The contexts of the Muslim world 8. The relevance of Fethullah Gülen’s thought for democratic reforms in the Muslim world Leonid R. Sykiainen 9. Turkish in the language of the Qu’ran: Hira Paul L. Heck 10. Central Asia’s hizmet schools Victoria Clement 11. The Gülen movement as a Civil-Islamic force in Indonesia Muhammad Nawab Osman 12. A Gülen-inspired school in South Africa Yasien Mohamed 13. The Gülen movement and promoting human rights values Ozcan Keles Towards a conclusion: Fethullah Gülen, the hizmet and the changing ‘Muslim world’ Greg Barton, Ihsan Yilmaz and Paul Weller Bibliography Indexes

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About the Author

Greg Barton is the Herb Feith Research Professor for the Study of Indonesia, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia. Paul Weller is Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK. Ihsan Yilmaz is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Reviews

The topics of the book are particularly relevant since Islam’s relationship with the intellectual and political aspects of modernity bears directly on events of epochal significance in the Arab world and elsewhere, as exemplified by the Arab Spring.
*Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies*

Over the years, the issue of Islam, Muslim communities and the Muslim world's relationship with the West has been discussed, explored and written about by a number of scholars and academics. The way this book has tackled various topics relating to the Muslim world is not only worth reading but refreshing, thoughtful and balanced – just as the Islamic principle of the "Golden Middle Rule". This book will go a long way to better the understanding of Islam in the West.
*Bashy Quraishy, Secretary General, European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion (EMISCO), Strasbourg, France*

This collection of articles is probably the best introduction available to one of the most dynamic movements influencing the Islamic world today. The hizmet community, inspired and guided by the thoughts of Fethullah Gülen, has played a key role in Islamic renewal. In the words of one contributor to the volume, the movement “allowed Muslims, once fearful that democracy, secularism, pluralism and human rights discourse would threaten their religious identity, to engage with full sincerity in political life and debate.
*Thomas Michel, Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, USA*