Spiritual dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-i nur
By: edited and with an introduction by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi.
Contributors: Abu-Rabiʻ, Ibrahim M.; Nursi, Said, 1873-1960.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780791474730; 9780791474747
Subjects: Nursi, Said, -- 1873-1960; Nurculuk -- Doctrines
Description: "The Nur community is one of the most significant religious and social movements in contemporary Turkey, with millions of adherents and a strong institutional and educational system throughout the country. This volume presents a picture of its spiritual dimensions by focusing on the ideas of its founder, Turkish theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nuri (1877-1960). Prominent scholars in contemporary Islamic studies and comparative spirituality examine the various facets of Nursi's spirituality as revealed in his magnum opus, Risale-i Nur, which began to take shape in the 1920s and is considered Nursi's deep reflection on the Qur'an in light of rapidly changing conditions in Turkey. Nursi argued that Islam must be organically linked to empire in order to preserve its identity in the modern era, fostering a spiritual tradition that has steadfastly survived the secular project of Kemalism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction; title: A survey of the main spiritual themes of the Risale-i nur / Sükran Vahide; title: The six-sided vision of Said Nursi : towards a spiritual architecture of the Risale-i nur / Colin Turner; title: Grounded spirituality : the challenge of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi / Ian Markham; title: At the heart of the matter : faith and belief in the poetic imagery of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi / Jane I. Smith; title: Faith development and spiritual maturation in the works of Said Nursi / Marcia Hermansen; title: The spirit of worship and the result of sincere belief : Nursi's Mathnawi al-Arabi al-Nuri as a handbook for the contemplative life / Lucinda Mosher; title: The chief characteristics of spirituality in Said Nursi's thought / Bilal Kuspinar; title: Dreams and dream interpretation in Said Nursi's Risale-i nur : Islamic, Judaic, and universal resonances / Yehezkel Landau; title: For you, illness is good health : Said Nursi's spirituality in his approach to physical illness / Thomas Michel; title: Nursi on hatred as the root of violence / Mustafa Ulusoy; title: Taking faith to heart : reconciliation and peacebuilding in Islam / Asma Afsaruddin; title: Said Nursi's vision for a new universal culture of dialogue / Abdelaziz Berghout; title: The threat to spirituality / Fred A. Reed; title: Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi and Bediüzzaman Nursi : some comparative considerations / Yohanan Friedmann; title: Visions of plurality in unity : Said Nursi, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi and the question of the unity of being / Stephen HirtensteIn; title: Exploring the spiritual dimensions of nature : Ahmed-i Jiziri and Said Nursi / M. Sait Özervarli; title: Sincerity in the thought of Muhammad Iqbal and Bediuzzman Said Nursi / Ahmet Albayrak; title: Spirit and spirituality : linking the lives of two twentieth-century pioneers / Miriam Terese Winter; title: Selections from Nursi's writings on spirituality / Sükran Vahide.