Epistemology of the Fethullah Gulen Stream in Turkey

In recent years, a trend has grown in Turkey, though it know itself influenced by the thoughts of Said Nursi, a distinguished Muslim Turk scholar, but has presented a new model in various ways. This trend, which is generally blended with the name of its leader, Fethullah Gulen, is also known as the Congregation of Service, the Noorchis Flow and the Gulen community. Not only this trend known as one of the major trends in the modern Turkey but also in the region is known as an influential one, and has been growing in recent years in areas such as the Balkans, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Africa and even the United States. Considering the importance this trend has had over the past years in Turkish society, politics and economy, as well as the fact that Gulen's trend is intellectually and ideologically competitive and even contradictory to the revolutionary Islamic model of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and over the past few years, its Anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian positions have increased, the study of the nature and extent of the religious and political influence of this trend is of great importance. Accordingly, the main focus of this paper is on the epistemology of the Fethullah Gulen trend  in Turkey.