Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Section one: History and Biography: Late Ottoman intellectual history and Nursi -- Said Nursi from the Ottoman to the Republican periods: a short biography -- My meeting with Said Nursi -- Section two: Theology: Said Nursi's Qur'anic hermeneutics -- Concept of God in the Risale-i-Nur: God through his creative activity -- The significance of resurrection and the afterlife in the writings of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi -- A graceful reconciliation: Said Nursi on free will and destiny -- Supplication as agent and fruit of transformation for Bediüzzaman Said Nursi -- The moral world of Said Nursi -- Morality and ethics in the Risale-i Nur -- The importance of the Sunna in Islamic spirituality: Said Nursi's approach -- The prophetic virtue of compassion as a core principle of the Risale-i Nur -- Section three: Nursi and society: An outline of the social theology of Said Nursi -- The Risale-i Nur as an epistemological ground for the framework of a sociology of science -- Said Nursei's view on materialism, positivism, and sciences -- The Medresetü'z-Zehrâ-explorations into its nature and significance -- Spiritual and moral reform of Muslim inmates: the model of Said Nursi -- The dissemination of the Risale-i Nur in Europe and the United States -- Christian-Muslim engagement -- Roman Catholic theological engagement with Said Nursi -- Section four: Nursi and politics: Said Nursi's positive action as a method of serving belief and peace -- Religious struggle in Modern Turkey: Said Nursi's interpretation of Jihad -- The nation state and nationalism in the thought of Said Nursi -- The future of Nursi studies -- Index.