Throughout the history of the Islamic civilizations there has been always a different approach to observing the universe and searching for truth than that of what we call modern science, which is a collection of pieces of knowledge developed by ...

Students in many of Gülen inspired schools in Turkey, the Balkans, Europe, Africa, Central Asia and the Far East take top honors in university placement tests and consistently finish at the top in International Science Olympiads. The schools have produced ...

There are currently more than 1000 Gülen-inspired schools around the world. The extraordinary achievement of Gülen inspired schools has been a clear indicator of the quality of education. G¸len inspired schools have been sharing some common values regardless of their ...

My first stop during this second visit to Africa was Nigeria - the largest country by population with some 155 million people. Within a few days I also realized it was one of the busier Hizmet hubs amongst all the ...

From the 7th to 17th centuries, Muslim Civilization stretched from southern Spain to China. Not only Muslims, but scholars of many faiths built on the ancient knowledge of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, and others, making breakthroughs that paved the ...

Teranga is another name for Senegal. It means hospitable in the Wolof language. It is a door that opens from the West to Africa and from Africa to the West. Here, the vast sand sea of Great Sahara comes to ...

The purpose of this article is to examine educational philosophy of Fethullah Gülen; his perception of realities, challenges, and opportunities surrounding the world of education, his guiding principles currently being practiced in the field of education at every level both ...

With my heart still reeling—with our nation’s heart still gasping—at the shooting deaths of the innocent first graders of Sandy Hook, we witness a new horror of an IED exploded across the bright, sunny day of a community gathered to ...

A basic assumption of many contemporary social science theories is that humans are “opportunistic” by definition and driven primarily by self-interest. This implies that a rational human being would exploit chances presented to him by immediate circumstances without any reference ...

If we look at the sociological definition of a social movement in the broadest sense it refers to collective action by a group of people brought together over a shared desire or interest to impact social change or bring about ...