July 4, 2011

Fethullah Gulen’s Approach to Eliminate the Identity Crisis among Muslims

Nazila Isgandarov*

German and Turkish flags
The views of Fethullah Gülen, a prominent spiritual and religious leader of moderate Muslims, have been helping Muslims in the West to integrate into their societies.

Since Gülen strives for political, economic, and cultural success of Muslims in the world, their identity struggle in the West is not alien to him and he offers some solutions to the identity crisis in the West. According to Fethullah Gülen, modern Western identity** was once based on the trinity of Greek thought, Roman law and Christianity and Eastern identity is based on faith and morality (Gülen, 2004f, p.148), and the Western identity should be enhanced with Eastern faith and morality (Gülen, 2005c. p. 56).