Nevval Sevindi writes for the daily Zaman and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. At the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, and Abdullah T. Antepli is the Coordinator of Islamic Chaplaincy and Interfaith Relations. Abu-Rabi' is the editor of several books, including Islam at the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, both also published by SUNY Press.

• Editor’s IntroductionPreface1. Fethullah Gülen’s Life and Thought2. The Actual Source of Hope: The Duty of Humanity3. The Flowering of the Individual4. Islam, Violence, and the West5. Turkish Identity between Islam and Nationalism6. Turkey’s Quest for Unification with Europe7. Reform in Islam and the Turkish Renaissance8. Iranian Islam9. Criticism and Countercriticism of the Gülen Phenomenon in Contemporary TurkeyAppendix: Two Poems by Fethullah GülenNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"…this book will be of use to those who are interested in diverse interpretations of Islam and their sociopolitical implications." — Middle East Journal"This compelling book provides an important analysis by a Turkish journalist with high respect for Gülen, and is edited by an excellent scholar of twentieth-century Islam who is highly regarded by disciples of Nursi and Gülen. Thus we get to hear Gülen speak for himself but with the benefit of Sevindi's contextualizing and commentary, and Abu-Rabi>'s editorial hand and judicious footnoting." — Lucinda Mosher, author of Praying: The Rituals of Faith