Glen

The "Hizmet" ("Service") Movement of Fethullah Glen is Turkeys most influential Islamic identity community. Widely praised throughout the early 2000s as a mild and moderate variation on Islamic political identity, the Glen Movement has long been a topic of both adulation and conspiracy in Turkey. In Glen, Joshua D. Hendrick suggests that the Glen Movement should be given credit for playing a significant role in Turkey's rise to global prominence. Hendrick draws on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey and the U.S. for his study. He argues that the movements growth and impact both inside and outside Turkey position both its leader and its followers as indicative of a "post political" turn in twenty-first century Islamic political identity in general, and as illustrative of Turkeys political, economic, and cultural transformation in particular.