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

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' holds the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World and the editor of several books, including Islam at the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; and Contemporary Islamic Conversations: M. Fethullah Gülen on Turkey, Islam, and the West; all published by SUNY Press.

• Editor's IntroductionIbrahim M. Abu-Rabi 1. A Survey of the Main Spiritual Themes of the Risale-i NurŞükran Vahide 2. The Six-Sided Vision of Said Nursi: Toward a Spiritual Architecture of the Risale-i NurColin Turner 3. Grounded Spirituality: The Challenge of Bediuzzaman Said NursiIan Markham 4. At the Heart of the Matter: Faith and Belief in the Poetic Imagery of Bediuzzaman Said NursiJane I. Smith 5. Faith Development and Spiritual Maturation in the Works of Said NursiMarcia Hermansen 6. The Spirit of Worship and the Result of Sincere Belief: Nursi's Mathnāwī al-'Arabī al-Nūrī as a Handbook for the Contemplative LifeLucinda Mosher  7. The Chief Characteristics of Spirituality in Said Nursi Religious ThoughtBilal Kuşpınar 8. Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur: Islamic, Judaic, and Universal ResonancesYehezkel Landau 9. "For you, illness is good health": Said Nursi's Spirituality in His Approach to Physical IllnessThomas Michel 10. Nursi on Hatred as the Root of ViolenceMustafa Ulusoy 11. Taking Faith to Heart: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in IslamAsma Afsaruddin  12. Said Nursi's Vision for a New Universal Culture of DialogueAbdelaziz Berghout  13. The Threat to SpiritualityFred A. Reed 14. Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindī and Bediüzzaman Nursi: Some Comparative ConsiderationsYohanan Friedmann  15. "Visions of Plurality in Unity": Said Nursi, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, and the Question of the Unity of BeingStephen Hirtenstein 16. Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Nature: Ahmed-i Jiziri and Said NursiM. Sait Özervarlı 17. Sincerity in the Thought of Muhammad Iqbal and Bediuzzman Said NursiAhmet Albayrak 18. Spirit and Spirituality: Linking the Lives of Two Twentieth-Century PioneersMiriam Terese Winter 19. Selections from Nursi's Writings on Spiritualitytr. Şükran Vahide BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"...this collection of essays is a most useful introduction to various aspects of Nursian spirituality and of the message of his Risale-i Nur. It is on a par with, if not better than, many other previously published collections of essays on Nursi and the cross-cultural and inter-religious appeal of the Nursian legacy." — Journal of Islamic Studies"Nursi is an interesting and highly relevant thinker today. The range of topics included here is impressive, and I especially liked the linking of work on Nursi to aspects of religious thought outside Islam. I suspect the book will be used in courses on Islamic studies as essential reading." — Oliver Leaman, coauthor of Islam: The Key Concepts