Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. contents v
3. Note on Transliteration vii
4. Editor’s Introduction ix
5. A Chronology of Said Nursi’s Life xvii
6. Toward an Intellectual Biography of Said Nursi 1
7. In the Footsteps of Said Nursi 33
8. Reflections on Said Nursi’s Life and Thought 45
9. Qur’anic Commentary, Public Space, and Religious Intellectuals in the Writings of Said Nursi 51
10. How to Read Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur 61
11. Said Nursi’s Interpretation of Jihād 93
12. Prison Is a Hell for the Unbeliever: Thoughts and Reflections on Two Imprisoned Muslims 115
13. Revelation, the Disciplines of Reason, and Truth in the Works of Said Nursi and Paul Tillich 129
14. The Concept of Man: Mevlānā Jalāl al-Dīn and Said Nursi 151
15. Forgetting Gramsci and Remembering Said Nursi: Parallel Theories of Gramsci and Said Nursi in the Space of Eurocentrism 167
16. The Marrow of Worship and the Moral Vision: Said Nursi and Supplication 181
17. The Separation of Human Philosophy from the Wisdom of the Qur’ān in Said Nursi’s Work 199
18. The Problem of Theodicy in the Risale-i Nur 215
19. The Apocalypse in the Teachings of Said Nursi 229
20. Ghurbah as Paradigm for Muslim Life: A Risale-i Nur Worldview 237
21. Islam, the Environment, and Said Nursi 255
22. Text and Community: An Analysis of the Risale-i Nur Movement 263
23. Nur Study Circles (Dershanes) and the Formation of New Religious Consciousness in Turkey 297
24. Said Nursi’s Project of Revitalizing Contemporary Islamic Thought 317
25. Preface to the al-Mathnawī al-‘Arabī al-NūBrī 335
26. Bibliography 351
27. Contributors 363
28. Index 365