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Demonization of the Gülen movement unfair and baseless

The Gülen movement is one of two marginalized groups in present-day Turkey along with the with Kurds. However, the situation was quite different 10 years ago. …

Did the Gülen Movement Infiltrate the State?

The Gülen group did not infiltrate the bureaucracy but participated in it. If there is to be a “responsible” party,…

Al-Azhar has examined and approved all the works of Mr. Gulen

Hizmet Movement: An Exemplary Paradigm of Transnational Civic Engagements

Islam is compatible with Democracy, despite Turkey’s recent example

Despite the outward appearance of Islamic observance, Erdogan regime represents a complete betrayal of core Islamic values. These core values are not about a style of dressing or the use of religious slogans. They include respect for the rule of law and the independence of…

Islamism and Fethullah Gülen

While it is an Islamic movement at its root, today the movement has become a strong network, able to successfully…

Islamist vs. Islamic: Erdogan’s deep-rooted hatred of the Gülen movement

Fethullah Gülen on Jihad

What does Gulen think about the issue of Jerusalem?

Gulen proposes to grant Jerusalem a supranational and supra-religious status including visa-free access for the followers of all religions and to develop a unique administration for the city whereby it would be governed by a committee under the United Nations comprising the representatives of three Abrahamic…

Gülen: Muslims have a unique responsibility in fighting terror

Gülen: God says “We have honored the children of Adam” (Quran, 17:70), all humanity is honored. The Qur’an describes taking…

The Other, East & West and Fethullah Gülen as Border Transgressor

Hizmet is not a terror group, they embrace the entire human family

Democracy in the Thought of Gülen and Erdoğan’s Politics

Fethullah Gülen: In the past, I did support the idea of a presidential system if it is to be modeled after the U.S. or France or other countries where there are checks and balances against the president. But Erdoğan’s proposal was akin to a sultan…

Gülen, Hizmet, the state and the AKP

The questions such as “What does the Hizmet movement want from the state?” “Why has Gülen been determinedly encouraging his…

Gülen on Secularism, Democracy and the Rule of Law

Fethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy

Global Terrorism and Islamic Radicalization: Analyses from Fethullah Gulen’s Perspective

Gulen deems terrorism as the greatest blow to peace, democracy, and humanity and he always condemns any terrorist activity no matter by whom it is carried out or for what purpose it is committed. He issues statements in this regard on various media platforms.…

Gulen’s new book: “Muslims’ Responsibility in Countering Violence”

Published by Gulen Chair at Leuven University in Belgium, this new book is a selection of some of Fethullah Gülen’s…

Fethullah Gulen: I consider the coup attempt as a serious “terror coup”

Fethullah Gülen on Acts of Terrorism – in light of Paris and Beirut

Don’t Make A Mystic into a Martyr: Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder

My conclusion? He’s a mystic in the Sufi tradition of Islam. And like other famous mystics in history—notably Gandhi, or Rumi—from whom Gülen draws deeply, Fethullah Gülen is a peacebuilder. And history teaches us that peacebuilders are likely to be misunderstood, vilified, and targeted. It would be tragic if once again historical forces conspire to turn a mystic into a martyr.…

Rumi and Gülen’s Main Message and Acceptance of the Other

Fethullah Gülen’s Dialogic Sufism: a theological framework

Sufism and its origins (by Fethullah Gulen)

Political Activism for Peaceful Coexistence in Rumi and Gulen

Rumi and Gülen’s Main Message and Acceptance of the Other

Love of God that leads to tolerance and compassion in Gülen’s Thought

Gülen defines “Muslim” as someone who conforms to his description of being tolerant. His view of Islam, simply put, is of a faith that exemplifies the principles which he embeds in the word “tolerance.”…

Was Gulen really “Once a close ally” of Erdogan?

Gülen flatly rejects the totalizing ideology of Islamism

Fethullah Gülen: A Muslim scholar, preacher and social advocate

Gülen vs Erdoğan – two diverging interpretations and practices of Islam

Gulen Movement, Civil Islam and Turkey’s Future

Does Gulen see human rights as a “Western conspiracy” used to divide “our country and nation”?

While citing examples from the implementations of Islamic injunctions in the past, which are in conformity with the modern-day understanding of human rights, Gülen says that the violation of people’s rights is unethical and sinful. Furthermore, on the topic of “rights,” he does not simply refer to human rights, but believes that all the living beings have rights of their own.…

True Life and True Humanity

Human beings and their nature (by Fethullah Gulen)

“The Characteristics of a Believer” by Fethullah Gulen

Solving the Paradox: How to be a Balanced Muslim

An analysis of Gülen’s Humanism

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Civil Rights, the Hizmet Movement, and the Liberative Power of Education

One of the foundational principles of the teachings of M. Fethullah Gulen, and thus one of the animating principles of the Hizmet movement, is the notion that education is one of the primary means by which the human person becomes most authentically human and thus reaches her or his full potential.…

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How do you see the enmity of Erdogan against you?

There is the issue of Hizmet schools. We operate hundreds of them in Turkey and in some 170 countries around the world, more than 1.400 schools. Erdogan wanted to control our network as a tool to further his aim of dominating the entire Islamic world, as caliph. But Hizmet refused to be used in such a way. Then Erdogan thought: if they don’t help me in this, they can’t exist, and started to close our schools. …