Centre for Hizmet Studies organised a roundtable discussion and book launch event entitled “Being Muslim in the Modern, a case study: The Hizmet Movement” on Wednesday the 23rd of October 2019, with Professor Anwar Alam.
The phrase “Islamic state” is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. Similarly, since there is no clergy class in Islam, theocracy is alien to the spirit of Islam. A state is a result of a contract among humans, made up of humans, and it can neither be “Islamic” nor “holy”.
This report discusses the history of the Hizmet movement and its establishment of schools around the world, specifically in Africa. It then explores Turkey's efforts to take over these schools, especially in weak African countries, by incentives or diplomatic pressure and to transfer their assets to the Maarif Foundation.
Turkey now leads the group of countries with the highest number of imprisoned journalists, with three times the number of journalists jailed in Iran and China.
What happened? On the 3rd October 2018, an armed man was seen trying to enter Fethullah Gulen’s place of residence – the Chestnut Retreat... Read More
LONDON-06 September 2018 What happened? On 6 September 2018, Moldovan and Turkish intelligence services arbitrarily detained 6 Turkish nationals in Moldova over links to... Read More
LONDON- 21 March 2018 What happened? On 14 March 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats after Russia refused... Read More
Turkey was hailed as an example for a modern Muslim democracy during the early 2000s. The current ruling party that came to power in... Read More
With regard to leadership and vision, the Sunni Muslim world seems to be in disarray. None of the following leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdel... Read More
Introduction Gareth Jenkins once criticised Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of ‘projective’ rather than deductive reasoning, working backwards... Read More
