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

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

Part I: Turkish Muslim Scholar, Preacher and Activist

Chapter 2: Person, Places and Developments

2.1. Biography of Fethullah Gen

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'

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 Dynamic

3.4. Overcoming Secular-Political Taboos

3.5. Overcoming National-Cultural Identity Taboos

3.6. Overcoming Religious Boundary Taboos

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 Deradicalization by Default

Part III: Islamic Heroism, Hizmet Loss and a Future Beyond Gen?

Chapter 5: Learning from Loss?

5.1. Wounded Exile

5.2. Gen, Hizmet and Dealing with Trauma

5.3. The Hijrah Interpretation and Post-Fact Religious Causality

5.4. Self-Criticism and its Limits

Chapter 6: Inheritance, Methodology, Integrity and Creativity

6.1. Evaluating Gen Interactively with Hizmet

6.2. Distinctive Normativity and Normality

6.3. Gen 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 Gen?