The Gülen Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in Faith-Based Reform

About Tamer Balci

Tamer Balc is Assistant Professor of Middle East History at the University of TexasPan American. He received his BA in History from Istanbul University and his MA and PhD also in History from Claremont Graduate University. He teaches the history of the Ottoman Empire; the history of the Early Middle East the Modern Middle East and Women in the Middle East; and Theories of Nationalism as well as World Civilizations survey courses. His general research focuses on the development of intellectual ideas in the post-WWI Middle East. Some of his most recent research subjects are the clash of Islam and nationalism the Turkish-Islamic synthesis and the Gülen Hizmet Movement. His last article The Rise and Fall of Nine Lights Ideology was published in Politics Religion & Ideology in June 2011.Christopher L. Miller received his bachelors degree from Lewis and Clark College and his PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara. He is currently Associate Professor of History Religious Studies and Law at the University of TexasPan American. He is the author of Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau (1985). He is also co-author of Making America: A History of the United States now in its sixth edition (2012). His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies as well as standard reference works. He has been a Research Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Harvard University and was the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History and Culture at the Lemonsov Moscow State University Russia.