The Six-Sided Vision of Said Nursi: Towards a Spiritual Architecture of the Risale-i Nur

 

Author: Turner, Colin

Source: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 19, Number 1, January 2008, pp. 53-71(19)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, the eponymous progenitor of the contemporary Nurculuk movement, was arguably the most influential, if woefully under-researched, Turkish Muslim thinker of the twentieth century. Nurculuk, a faith-based movement consisting of an estimated seven million followers worldwide, stands out from other contemporary Muslim religious and ideological groupings not only for its uncompromising focus on the renewal of individual rather than collective faith, but also for its eschewal of any kind of religiously legitimized violence or militancy for the sake of politico-ideological ends. This article is an attempt at an overview of Nursi's idiosyncratically irenic approach to the highly contentious issue of jihad, itself key to our understanding of the staunch apoliticism he espoused in later life.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13510340701770295

Affiliations: 1: The Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, Durham, UK

Publication date: 2008-01-01

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