Fethullah Gülen

Fethullah Gülen

Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader (as de facto leader of the Gülen movement: an international, faith-based civil society organization once aligned with Turkey's government, but since then outlawed as an alleged "armed terrorist group"). Gülen is designated an influential Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity, as a citizen of Turkey (until his denaturalization by the government in 2017) he was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior his there being as a fugitive. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fethullah Gülen has received more than 2,235,000 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Fethullah Gülen is the 283rd most popular religious figure (up from 315th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.

Fethullah Gülen is most famous for being a Turkish Muslim scholar and preacher who is the founder of the Gülen movement.