September 21, 2014

'Hizmet goes to the heart of what it means to be a Muslim.'

Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 9 (Full text)

My name is Brad Hawkins**. I’m a professor of religions here at Cal State Long Beach.

Currently, my specialty is the study of South and Southeast Asian religions, but I did my B.A. in Islamic studies and have followed pretty closely what has been going on in the Middle East and particularly in Turkey, which I’ve had the pleasure of being associated with for almost four years now.

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