UID:
edocfu_9959226852902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (283 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-351-88000-4
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1-315-23642-7
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1-282-65766-6
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9786612657665
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1-4094-0619-9
Inhalt:
This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d.1960]. Nursi wrote in both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and his life and thought reflected the transition of modern Turkey from an empire to a secular republic. The contributors to this volume shed new light on two major dimensions of Nursi's thought: theodicy and justice. Classical Muslim theologians debated these two important issues; however, we must consider the modern debate of these issues in the context of the radical political and social transformations of mo
Anmerkung:
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.
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Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Editor's Introduction; 1 Theodicy and the Many Meanings of Adam and Eve; 2 Living Life in the Light of Death: A Conversation with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; 3 The Resurrection of the Dead and Final Judgment in the Thought of Said Nursi; 4 Proof of the Resurrection of the Dead: Said Nursi's Approach; 5 Death in Nursi's Thought; 6 La Siyyama: Nursi's Treatise on al-Hashr in Mathnawi al-Nuriye; 7 Resurrection in the Writings of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: Comparative Reflections with Christian Theology
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8 The Resurrection of the Dead: Said Nursi and Jürgen Moltmann9 The Problem of Animal Pain: An Introduction to Nursi's Approach; 10 Justice, Morality, and Modernity: What Makes the Risale-i Nur Modern?; 11 Two Epistles of Consolation: Al-Shahid al-Thani and Said Nursi on Theodicy; 12 "Landscape and Melancholy:" Said Nursi, Dante Alighieri and the Contexts of Modernism; 13 Said Nursi's Approach to Justice and its Role for Political Reforms in the Muslim World; 14 Reflections on Prayer and Social Justice in the Thought of Thomas Merton and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
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15 God's Justice in Relation to Natural Disasters16 Justice and Balance in Creation: Said Nursi's Analysis; 17 Nursi's Compassion and Kant's Categorical Imperative: Justice and Ethics in Building a Better World; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4094-0618-0
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4094-0617-2
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781315236421
