scholarly journals SUNNAH ACCORDING TO BEDIUZZAMAN SAID NURSI

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Ali Bakkal
Keyword(s):  
Said Nursi

Redefining the Miraculous: al-Ghazālī, Ibn Rushd and Said Nursi on Qur'anic Miracle Stories

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isra Yazicioglu
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Indirect Confirmation ◽  
Said Nursi

Miracle stories in sacred texts have been a source of both fascination and heated debate across religious traditions. Qur'anic miracle stories are especially interesting because they are part of a discourse that also de-emphasises the miraculous. By looking at how three scholars have engaged with Qur'anic miracle stories, I here investigate how these narratives have been interpreted in diverse and fruitful ways. The first part of the article analyses how two medieval scholars, al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) and Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198), engaged with the implications of miracle stories. Taking his cue from miracle stories, al-Ghazālī offered a sophisticated critique of natural determinism and suggested that the natural order should be perceived as a constantly renewed divine gift. In contrast, Ibn Rushd dismissed al-Ghazālī’s critique as sophistry and maintained that accepting the possibility that the natural order might be suspended was an affront to human knowledge and science. In the second part, I turn to Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1870–1960), whose interpretation offers a crystallisation of al-Ghazālī’s insights as well as, surprisingly, an indirect confirmation of Ibn Rushd's concerns about human knowledge and science. Nursi redefines the miraculous in light of miracle stories, and interprets them as reminders of ‘everyday miracles’ and as encouragements to improve science and technology in God's name.

Creation as Text: The Graphological Trope in Said Nursi's Risāle-i nūr

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Colin Turner
Keyword(s):  
Extensive Survey ◽  
Faith Traditions ◽  
Divine Words ◽  
Said Nursi

Reading the act of creation as written or spoken narrative seems to have gained currency across the faith traditions from very early on. The Muslim tradition is no exception. As the ‘pen and ink’ verse in the Qur'an shows, the notion of creation as an assemblage of divine words is as old as Islam itself. It was not until the advent of Muslim mysticism, however, that writers began to build on the image's revelatory foundations. The present study is an introductory analysis of extended metaphor in the work of the Ottoman theologian Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, with particular reference to the use of the ‘graphological trope’ in his six-thousand-page exegesis of the Qur'an known as the Risale-i Nur (‘The Epistles of Light’). The aim is to draw attention to Nursi's use of a particular literary conceit that is deserving of further study. Of the few works on Nursi and his teachings that stand up to serious academic scrutiny, nothing of substance has been written about the language of the Risale-i Nur. It is hoped that this exploratory article will spur other scholars on to a more extensive survey and analysis of imagery in Nursi's oeuvre.

Said Nursi, Desecularization, and Turkish Protest

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miharja Nurhidayahti Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Said Nursi

The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Kalin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Intellectual Foundations ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Said Nursi ◽  
Turkish Society

This book, originally published in 1962, has now become a classic on the historyof modemTurkish political thought, whose beginning is usually traced back to theT-t period (1836-1878), the most turbulent and crucial period of modemTurkish history. Serif Mardin, the famous Turkish historian and political scientist,is like a household name to those interested in modern Ottoman and Turkishintellectual history. In his numerous books and articles, which followed thepublication of the present work, Mardin took the herculean task of unearthing theparameters of modem Turkish thought with an almost solitary conscience. It issimply impossible to have a discussion about Islam and Turkish society, socialchange, modernization or secularization without referring to Mardin’s work,which is woven around a string of ideas, concepts and analytical tools, all of whichenable him to see the realities of Turkey and the modem Islamic world both fromwithin and from without. His more recent Relwon and Social change in Twkey:’ c irhe of&aYuzaman Said Nuni (New York: SUNY Press, 1989),w hich is thesingle most important book written in English on Said Nursi, the founder of theNurcu movement in Turkey, is the result of the same set of principles Mardin hasadopted throughout his career: diligent scholarship, resistance to fads, and willingnessto understand before passing any judgements on his subject.The present work under review touches upon the most sensitive and crucialperiod of modem Turkish history, viz., the end of the Ottoman era and the establishmentof the modem Turkish Republic. Mardin’s exclusive emphasis is on theTanzirnat period, and the figures that laid the intellectual foundations of it. Thesignificance of this period can hardly be overemphasized, not only for Turkish historybut also for the rest of the Islamic world. It was in this period that a wholegeneration of ottoman intellectuals, from right to left, was faced with the historictask of confronting modem western civilization in the profoundest sense of theterm, and their successes and failures set the agenda for the modem intellectualhistory of Turkey for decades to follow. Their troublesome journey was shaped bythe historical setting, in which they came to terms with such questions as modernism,secularism, westernization, nationalism, Islam, society, science, tradition,and a host of other issues that continue to haunt the minds of the Islamic worldtoday. Their trial, however, was linked to the rest of the members of the Islamicworld in ways, as the present work under review shows, more important than isusually thought, and this issue, namely the place of ottoman intellectual historywithin the larger context of modem klamic thought, has not been resolved. In this ...

Survei Awal Studi Perbandingan Al-Qur’an dan Bibel dalam Kesarjanaan Barat Sebuah Perjalanan Menuju Intertekstualitas

SUHUF ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina
Keyword(s):  
Said Nursi

Artikel ini hendak mengkaji tafsir sufistik Said Nursi dan Fethullah Gulen, persamaan dan perbedaan keduanya. Dengan menggunakan teori sejarah sosial pemikiran tafsir, tulisan ini mengungkapkan bahwa baik Nursi maupun Gulen samasama menggunakan paradigma sufistik dalam penafsiran Al-Qur’an. Paradigma sufistik dalam penafsiran Al-Qur’an menjadi cara efektif yang digunakan untuk mereka yang hidup di lingkungan ‘sekuler’, sehingga keduanya memilih ‘suasana sejuk’ guna menularkan pengetahuan Qur’ani ke komunitasnya yang digempur gelamornya peradaban Barat dengan sistemnya yang sekuler. Paradigma sufistik yang dikembangkan Nursi dan Gulen tidak sepenuhnya menjinakkan akal di samping hati dan jiwa. Ketiga-tiganya digunakan secara seimbang dalam mengarungi samudera Al-Qur’an. Selain itu, apa yang dilakukan Nursi, dan khususnya Gulen, sekaligus membantah apa yang diragukan Ignaz Goldziher bahwa tasawuf merupakan doktrin asing dari tradisi Islam. Baik Nursi maupun Gulen merupakan tokoh yang lebur bersama komunitasnya, sehingga cakrawala tafsir yang dihasilkan lebih bernuansa populis, ketimbang perdebatan akademis.Kata Kunci : Tafsir Sufistik, Badi’uzzaman Said Nursi, Fethullah Gulen

Badiuzzaman Said Nursi and KH Ahmad Dahlan’s Thoughts on Education Reform: A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sophy Abdul Aziz ◽  
Hudzaifah Achmad Qotadah ◽  
Adang Darmawan Achmad
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Education Management ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
Mass Organization ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Global Government ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Said Nursi ◽  
Islamic Values

In order to control the movement of globalization throughout this modern era, one of it's key aspects is through deconstruction throughout the education sector. Undoubtedly, high quality education management was produced by integrating disciplines in practice with fundamental Islamic values within the learning process. Besides that, this approach had also been continuously used among reformist leaders to weaken the dangerous Western ideology that influenced significantly the global government system through colonialism mostly by poisoning the generation of youth through sole reference to materialism philosophy and rationalism. Based on that issue, numerous powerful leaders in Indonesia have intervened to rectify the problem among Muslims by reconstruction of the education systems rather than through political as well as other aggressive physical interaction. KH Ahmad Dahlan was the trustworthy figure in endorsing the concept of educational reform through the "Muhammadiyah" mass organization, which was formed in Yogyakarta in 1912. The conducted a study to examine the similarities amongst KH Ahmad Dahlan and Badiuzzaman Said Nursi in applying the Islamic Education Reform System in the region. In this research, the researcher uses full qualitative method and documentation related to the topic of this research, which then will be analyze descriptively.

scholarly journals Signifikansi Sunah dalam Perspektif Said Nursi Bagi Masyarakat Kontemporer

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-200
Author(s):  
Zaprulkhan Zaprulkhan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Said Nursi

This article discusses Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s ideas on significance of the Practices of the Prophet (Sunna) for modern people. In the present day, many modern people deal with some problems such as spiritual crisis (existential vacuum), moral degradation, and so on. On the other hand, according to Said Nursi, Practices of the Prophet are all highly beneficial remedies for sicknesses of the spirit, mind, and heart, and particularly for social sicknesses. Accordingly, Practices of the Prophet could give the best solution for modern people problems, both individual sicknesses and social sicknesses. Before proposing Said Nursi’s perspective about significance of sunna, the paper forwards epistemological questions: How are the meaning and function of sunna according to Said Nursi? How are the urgent problems of modern people? What is the significance of Practices of the Prophet for modern people in the view of Said Nursi? The answer of these questions will determine the significance of the Practices of the Prophet in our era and in the future.

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