The Gülen Movement
This is a book about Fethullah GA1/4len, a Turkish scholar and preacher, and the movement that he inspired in Turkey and ultimately throughout the world. During the decades of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he preached to large crowds in mosques and public places throughout Turkey and wrote hundreds of...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Dordrecht
Springer Science+Business Media B. V
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gülen, Fethullah 1938-
/ Social movement
/ Religious movement
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| Further subjects: | B
Social Sciences
B Religion (General) B Sociology B Regional planning B Anthropology |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This is a book about Fethullah GA1/4len, a Turkish scholar and preacher, and the movement that he inspired in Turkey and ultimately throughout the world. During the decades of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he preached to large crowds in mosques and public places throughout Turkey and wrote hundreds of newspaper columns, articles and books espousing his ideas. Gradually, many Turks from all walks of life responded to his ideas of education, modernization, positive relationships with the West and interfaith dialog by establishing dormitories, university preparatory courses and schools in which qu |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1402098944 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9894-9 |