Theodicy and justice in modern Islamic thought
Subtitle: the case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
By: edited and with an introduction by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabiʻ.
Contributors: Abu-Rabiʻ, Ibrahim M.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781409406181; 9781409406174; 9781409406198
Subjects: Nursi, Said, -- 1873-1960; Nursi, Said, -- 1873-1960 -- Political and social views; Nurculuk
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Theodicy and the many meanings of Adam and Eve / Barbara Freyer Stowasser; title: Living life in the light of death: a conversation with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi / Ian Markham; title: The resurrection of the dead and final judgment in Said Nursi's thought / Thomas Michel, S.J.; title: Proof of the resurrection of the dead: Said Nursi's approach / Şükran Vahide; title: Death in Said Nursi's thought / Bilal Kuspinar; title: l siyyam?: Nursi's treatise on al-hashr in Mathnawi al-nuriye / Lucinda Mosher; title: Resurrection in the writings of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: comparative reflections with Christian theology / W. Mark Richardson; title: The resurrection of the dead: Said Nursi and Jürgen Moltman / Leo D. Lefebure; title: The problem of animal pain: Said Nursi's approach / Cüneyt M. Şimsek; title: Justice, morality, and modernity: what makes the Risale-i nur modern? / Dale F. Eickelman; title: Two epistles of consolation: al-Shahid al-Thani and Said Nursi on theodicy / Eric Ormsby; title: "Landscape and melancholy": Said Nursi, Dante Alighieri and the contexts of modernism / Gareth Jones; title: Said Nursi's approach to justice and its role for political reforms in the Muslim world / Leonid Sykiainen; title: Reflections on prayer and social justice in the thought of Thomas Merton and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi / David R. Law; title: God's justice in relation to natural disasters / Thomas Michel, S.J.; title: Justice and balance in creation: Said Nursi's analysis / Bilal Kuspinar; title: Nursi's compassion and Kant's categorical imperative: justice and ethics in building a better world / Ian Kaplow.