Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur
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Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur

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  2. English
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Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur

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Essays on various facets of Nursi's spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.

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 Nursi (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 Quran 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur
  2. CONTENTS
  3. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: History, Politics, and Charisma in Risale-i Nur
  4. 1. A SURVEY OF THE MAIN SPIRITUAL THEMES OF THE RISALE-I NUR
  5. 2. THE SIX-SIDED VISION OF SAID NURSI: Toward a Spiritual Architecture of the Risale-i Nur
  6. 3. GROUNDED SPIRITUALITY: The Challenge of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
  7. 4. AT THE HEART OF THE MATTER: Faith and Belief in the Poetic Imagery of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
  8. 5. FAITH DEVELOPMENT AND SPIRITUAL MATURATION IN THE WORKS OF SAID NURSI
  9. 6. THE SPIRIT OF WORSHIP AND THE RESULT OF SINCERE BELIEFNursi’s Mathn w al-‘Arab al-N r as a Handbook for the Contemplative Life
  10. 7. THE CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS OF SPIRITUALITY IN SAID NURSI’S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
  11. 8. DREAMS AND DREAM INTERPRETATION IN SAID NURSI’S RISALE-I NUR: Islamic, Judaic, and Universal Resonances
  12. 9. “FOR YOU, ILLNESS IS GOOD HEALTH”: Said Nursi’s Spirituality in His Approach to Physical Illness
  13. 10. NURSI ON HATRED AS THE ROOT OF VIOLENCE
  14. 11. TAKING FAITH TO HEART: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Islam
  15. 12. SAID NURSI’S VISION FOR A NEW UNIVERSAL CULTURE OF DIALOGUE
  16. 13. THE THREAT TO SPIRITUALITY
  17. 14. SHAYKH AHMAD SIRHINDAND BEDIÜZZAMAN NURSI: Some Comparative Considerations
  18. 15. “VISIONS OF PLURALITY IN UNITY”: Said Nursi, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, and the Question of the Unity of Being
  19. 16. EXPLORING THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF NATURE: Ahmed-i Jiziri and Said Nursi
  20. 17. SINCERITY IN THE THOUGHT OF MUHAMMAD IQBALAND BEDIUZZMAN SAID NURSI
  21. 18. SPIRIT AND SPIRITUALITY: Linking the Lives of Two Twentieth-Century Pioneers
  22. 19. SELECTIONS FROM NURSI’S WRITINGS ON SPIRITUALITY
  23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  24. CONTRIBUTORS
  25. INDEX