Fethullah Gülen's Teaching and Practice : : Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development.

• Author: Weller, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; {copy}2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 pages)

Table of Contents

• Fethullah Gülen's Teaching and Practice
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• General Acknowledgements
• Copyright Permissions
• Personal and Professional Thanks
• Turkish Words
• Contents
• About the Author
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• 1.1 The Focus of the Book
• 1.2 A Religious Studies Approach
• 1.3 Situating in the Wider Literature
• 1.4 Evidence, Aims, and Methods
• References
• Part I: Turkish Muslim Scholar, Preacher, and Activist
• Chapter 2: Person, Places, and Development
• 2.1 Biographies of Fethullah Gülen
• 2.2 Erzurum: Traditional Contextualisation
• 2.3 Edirne: Secular and Plural Contextualisation
• 2.4 Izmir: Creative Contextualisation Through Differentiation
• 2.5 Istanbul: Withdrawal and Cosmopolitan Engagement
• 2.6 Pivotal Role of Educational Initiatives
• 2.7 Europe, Turkish Eurasia, and Beyond
• 2.8 'Enemy of the State'
• References
• Part II: Islamic Rootedness, Taboo-Breaking, and Socio-religious Implications
• Chapter 3: Biography, Context, and Substance in Interplay
• 3.1 Turmoil as Turkish Context
• 3.2 Distinctive Scholar, Teacher, and Innovator
• 3.3 Sources, Places, Times, and Revelatory Dynamics
• 3.4 Overcoming Secular-Political Taboos
• 3.5 Overcoming National-Cultural Taboos
• 3.6 Overcoming Religious Boundary Taboos
• References
• Chapter 4: Islamic Spirituality and Social Processing
• 4.1 Muslim Insecurity, the 'Heroic' Tradition, and Alternative Hermeneutics
• 4.2 Spirituality, the True Human, Love, and Service
• 4.3 For Human Freedom
• 4.4 Against Theocracy and for Democracy
• 4.5 Islam, Terror, and Deradicalisation by Default
• References
• Part III: Islamic Heroism, Hizmet Loss, and a Future Beyond Gülen?
• Chapter 5: Learning from Loss?
• 5.1 Wounded Exile
• 5.2 Gülen, Hizmet, and Dealing with Trauma
• 5.3 The Hijrah Interpretation and Post-Fact Religious Causality.
• 5.4 Self-Criticism and Its Limits
• References
• Chapter 6: Inheritance, Methodology, Integrity, and Creativity
• 6.1 Evaluating Gülen Interactively with Hizmet
• 6.2 Distinctive Normativity and Ordinary 'Normality'
• 6.3 Gülen and Hizmet: Now and Beyond
• 6.4 Linguistic Deposits, Interpretive Processing, and Informed Application
• 6.5 The Methodology of Learning by Doing
• 6.6 Love, the Human, and Ecumenical Ijtihads in Action
• 6.7 Going Beyond Gülen?
• References
• Index.