Hizmet: Questions and Answers on the Hizmet Movement“Hizmet”—or the Gülen Movement referring to name of the renowned Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen—originated in 1970s’ Turkey as a faith-inspired initiative to improve educational opportunities for a local community; since then, it has grown into a transnational educational, inter-cultural and interfaith movement. This book is intended to summarize and represent the conclusions of much of the academic work on Hizmet in a manner more easily accessible to the lay person or non-specialist. |
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| Title | Hizmet: Questions and Answers on the Hizmet Movement |
| Author | Muhammed Cetin |
| Publisher | Blue Dome Press, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1935295942, 9781935295945 |
| Length | 200 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Sociology / General |
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