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The Essentials of the Islamic Faith

Author	Fethullah Gülen
Audio read by	Lee Crooks
Original title	İnancın Gölgesinde
Translator	Ali Ünal
Subject	Islamic theology
Publisher	Tughra Books
Pages	270
ISBN	9781932099850
Website	Essentials of the Islamic Faith

The Essentials of the Islamic Faith is a theological book written by M. Fethullah Gülen, in which he explains the basic foundations of Islamic belief that are obligatory for Muslims to know.

The work takes up matters related to creation and causality, eschatology, the resurrection of the body, the unseen world of angels, jinn and Satan, and it concludes with a study of prophethood (nubuwwat), the prophethood of Muhammad, and the question of science and religion in relation to the study of the Qur'an.

Content

The work is divided into six thematic chapters, as follows:

1. The Existence and Unity of God.
2. The Invisible Realm of Existence.
3. Divine Decree and Destiny, and Human Free Will.
4. The Resurrection and the Afterlife.
5. Prophethood and Muhammad's Prophethood.
6. The Holy Qur'an.

Editions and translations

Turkish

Originally published in Turkish as İnancın Gölgesinde (lit. 'In the Shadow of Faith') by Nil Yayınları in 1991.

English

First edition in English translated by Ali Ünal, and published in 2000.

Russian

The work was translated into Russian by Farid Bagirov, and published in 2006 under the title Жизнь И Исламская Вера.

Spanish

The work was translated into Spanish in 2007 by Esteban E. Loustaunou under the title Fundamentos de la fe Islámica.

See also

• List of Sunni books

References

1. Ron Geaves; Theodore Gabriel, eds. (2013). Sufism in Britain. A&C Black. p. 241. ISBN 9781441114877.
2. Recep Dogan (2019). Political Islamists in Turkey and the Gülen Movement. Springer Nature. p. 162. ISBN 9783030297572.
3. M. Hakan Yavuz; John L. Esposito, eds. (2003). Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement. Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Syracuse University Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 9780815630401.
4. Fethullah Gülen (2006). The Essentials of the Islamic Faith. Translated by Ali Ünal. The Light, Inc. ISBN 9781932099850.
5. Nevval Sevindi (2008). Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' (ed.). Contemporary Islamic Conversations: M. Fethullah Gülen on Turkey, Islam, and the West. SUNY Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780791473542.
6. "İnancın Gölgesinde". fgulen.com/tr (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 17 May 2024.
7. "Essentials of the Islamic Faith / M. Fethullah Gulen; [translated from Turkish by Ali Ünal]". The University of Lahore (UOL). Archived from the original on 17 May 2024.
8. "Жизнь и исламская вера / Zhiznʹ i islamskai︠a︡ vera". worldcat.org. WorldCat. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024.
9. "Жизнь И Исламская Вера, Фетхуллах Гюлен" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 May 2024.
10. "Jizn i Islamkaya Vera-Essentials of The Islamic Faith, the (Russian)". Archived from the original on 17 May 2024.
11. "Fundamentos de la fe Islámica". fgulen.com/es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 May 2024.

External links

• Official website
• The Essentials of the Islamic Faith on Goodreads.com
• The Essentials of the Islamic Faith on The Internet Archive

• Gülen movement
• Books about Islam
• Islamic theology books
• Sunni literature