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Fethullah Gulen was born in a small village near Turkey’s Erzurum province in 1941. Mr. Gulen’s father Ramiz Gulen, was an imam in the region and his mother, Refia Gulen, was the primary caregiver of the family and a major influence on Mr.

Gulen’s spiritual and religious upbringing. Mr. Gulen attended his formal primary education in his home village, and after the family moved to a nearby village he began an informal religious education.

He was known to have an insatiable hunger for reading and knowledge of every subject on his curriculum and during this informal religious education, Fethullah Gulen maintained high interest in contemporary issues of his time.

He also studied the classics such as Faust, Les Misérables, Of Mice and Man and many others to gain a better understanding of the western world; moreover, he had a keen interest in fine arts, enjoyed Turkish classical music and found painters such as Picasso and DaVinci awe inspiring.

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