Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose : : Selections on Tawhid from Said Nursi's Epistles of Light / / Yamina Bouguenaya, Umeyye Yazicioglu.

The current volume is an annotated translation of selections from a noteworthy Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1876-1960) on the Quranic theme of oneness of God (tawhid). Given the scarcity of theological themes in Islamic literature in English as well as the lack of studies on Said Nursi, who wrote i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The Modern Muslim World ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS AND DIACRITICS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION: NURSI’S QURANIC HERMENEUTICS
  • SELECTIONS FROM EPISTLES OF LIGHT (RISALE-I NUR)
  • 1 BISMILLAH: IN THE NAME OF GOD
  • 2 NATURE: WINDOW ONTO THE CAUSER OF ALL CAUSES
  • 3 ONLY ONE GOD: GOOD NEWS AND HEALING
  • 4 IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO THROW OFF THE YOKE OF SHIRK: THE LIGHT OF TAWHID IN OLD AGE
  • 5 SURRENDERING TO THE ONE: THE EXAMPLE OF PROPHET JONAH
  • 6 YOU ARE THE ARTWORK OF THE ONE GOD AND YOUR SOUL LONGS FOR THE ONE
  • 7 GRATITUDE IS AWARENESS: RECEIVING BLESSINGS ONLY IN GOD’S NAME
  • 8 BELIEF: LIGHT AND STRENGTH
  • 9 CALLING UNTO ONE GOD: PRAYER
  • 10 SIGNS OF GOD IN REGULARITY AND DIVERSITY
  • 11 JOYFUL AND RADIANT CONSEQUENCES OF TAWHID
  • 12 THE WORLD IS SPEAKING OF TAWHID: A PARABLE
  • 13 SUPERFICIAL VS. TRUE TAWHID: UNPACKING THE PARABLE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX