RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Fethullah Gülen

1941 - 2024

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Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (27 April 1941 – 20 October 2024) was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement who as of 2016 had millions of followers. Gülen was an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity. Gülen was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981 and he was a citizen of Turkey until his denaturalization by the Turkish government in 2017. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior to his being there as a fugitive. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fethullah Gülen is the 382nd most popular religious figure (up from 398th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 147th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.

Fethullah Gülen is most famous for being a Turkish Muslim scholar and preacher who is the founder of the Gülen movement.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Fethullah Gülen ranks 382 out of 3,187. Before him are Caiaphas, Pope Constantine, Pope Theodore II, Pope Celestine II, Pope Nicholas IV, and Pope Boniface IV. After him are Twosret, Pope Boniface III, Pope Leo VII, Pope Adrian III, Pope Zosimus, and Pope Fabian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Fethullah Gülen ranks 14. Before him are Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Cesária Évora, Riccardo Muti, and Lee Myung-bak. After him are Robert Forster, Richard Dawkins, Bernie Sanders, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bruno Ganz, and George Smith. Among people deceased in 2024, Fethullah Gülen ranks 8. Before him are Alain Delon, Franz Beckenbauer, Manmohan Singh, Maggie Smith, Donald Sutherland, and O. J. Simpson. After him are Paul Auster, Mário Zagallo, Ismail Kadare, William Anders, Alberto Fujimori, and Peter Higgs.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Fethullah Gülen ranks 132 out of 1,347. Before him are Enver Pasha (1881), Mustafa IV (1779), Chrysippus (-281), Julius Nepos (430), Anna Komnene (1083), and İsmet İnönü (1884). After him are Cassius Dio (155), Proclus (412), Michael III (840), Justinian II (668), Abdullah Gül (1950), and Ignatius of Antioch (35).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Türkiye

Among religious figures born in Türkiye, Fethullah Gülen ranks 19. Before him are Ephrem the Syrian (306), Ulfilas (311), Irenaeus (130), Photios I of Constantinople (900), Theodora (815), and Rachel (-3500). After him are Ignatius of Antioch (35), Pope John VII (650), Dionysius Exiguus (475), Gregory of Nyssa (335), Saint Nino (296), and Erasmus of Formia (300).

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