Islam at the crossroads : on the life and thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi / edited and with an introduction by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabiʻ.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abu-Rabiʻ, Ibrahim M.

Series:

SUNY series in Near Eastern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursi, Said, 1873-1960.

Nursi, Said.

Nurculuk.

Muslim scholars--Turkey--Biography.

Muslim scholars.

Turkey.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 367 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Contents:

Editor's introduction

A chronology of Said Nursi's life / Şükran Vahide

Toward an intellectual biography of Said Nursi / Şükran Vahide

In the footsteps of Said Nursi / Fred A. Reed

Reflections on Said Nursi's life and thought / Şerif Mardin

Qurʾanic commentary, public space, and religious intellectuals in the writings of Said Nursi / Dale F. Eickelman

How to read Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur / Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabiʻ

Said Nursi's interpretation of Jihād / Şükran Vahide

Prison is a hell for the unbeliever: thoughts and reflections on two imprisoned Muslims / Ayize Jamat-Everett

Revelation, the disciplines of reason, and truth in the works of Said Nursi and Paul Tillich / Kelton Cobb

The concept of man: Mevlānā Jalāl al-Dīn and Said Nursi / Bilal Kuşpinar

Forgetting Gramsci and remembering Said Nursi: parallel theories of Gramsci and Said Nursi in the space of eurocentrism / Mucahit Bilici

The marrow of worship and the moral vision: Said Nursi and supplication / Lucinda Allen Mosher

The separation of human philosophy from the wisdom of the Qurʾān in Said Nursi's work / Taha ʻAbdel Rahman

The problem of theodicy in the Risale-i Nur / Mehmet S. Aydin

The apocalypse in the teachings of Said Nursi / Barbara Freyer Stowasser

Ghurbah as paradigm for Muslim life: a Risale-i Nur worldview / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Islam, the environment, and Said Nursi / Oliver Leaman

Text and community: an analysis of the Risale-i Nur movement / Metin Karabaşoǧlu

Nur study circles (Bershanes) and the formation of new religious consciousness in Turkey / M. Hakan Yavuz

Said Nursi's project of revitalizing contemporary Islamic thought / M. Sait Özervarlı

Preface to the al-Mathnawī al-ʻArabī al-Nūrī / Redha Ameur, translator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-361) and index.

ISBN:

0791457001

0791456994

OCLC:

50243387