Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and The Risale-i Nur

SAID NURSI AND RISALE-I NUR

Contents

1. The Life of Imām Bedī‘uzzamān Sa‘īd Nursī

a. His Education

b. His Idea of Renewal in Education

c. The “New Sa‘īd” Period and Service to the True Faith

d. The Risāle-i Nūr Service after Imām Bedī‘uzzamān Sa‘īd Nursī

2. The Successor of Imām Nursī, Husrev Efendi’s Services

3. A Brief Look at The Book of Light Corpus (Risale-i Nur)

4. The Nature of The Risāle-i Nūr and Its Place in Islāmic History

a. What type of book is The Risāle-i Nūr?

b. When writing The Book of Light, what objective did Imām Bedī‘uzzamān Sa‘īd Nursī have in mind?

c. Does The Book of Light belong to an identifiable genre in Islāmic literature?

d. The Book of Light and its place in the history of the Islāmic sciences

e. Imām Bedī‘uzzamān Sa‘īd Nursī’s place in Islāmic history: Nursī’s Ottoman context