Turkish author, educator, and Muslim scholar living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, USA. He is the founder of the Gülen movement.Gülen teaches an Anatolian version of traditional mainstream Islam,deriving from Said Nursis teachings and modernizing them. Gülen supports interfaith dialogue among the people of the book, and has initiated such dialogue with the Vatican and some Jewish organizations.Gülen is actively involved in the societal debate concerning the future of the Turkish state, and Islam in the modern world.
In the Turkish context Gülen appears relatively conservative and religiously observant.