The Muslim world and politics in transition : creative contributions of the Gülen movement

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