Modern Interpretation of the Quran

This book analyzes the distinguished modern Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the methodology of Quranic exegesis in his Risale-i Nur Collection, with special reference to the views of the early Muslim modernist intellectuals such as Muhammad Abduh. It seeks to locate Nursi within modern Quranic scholarship, exploring the difference between Nursis reading of the Quran and that of his counterparts, and examines how Nursi relates the Quranic text to concerns of the modern period.