Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-361) and index.
Editor's introduction -- A chronology of Said Nursi's life / Şükran Vahide -- Toward an intellectual biography of Said Nursi / Şükran Vahide -- In the footsteps of Said Nursi / Fred A. Reed -- Reflections on Said Nursi's life and thought / Şerif Mardin -- Qurʼanic commentary, public space, and religious intellectuals in the writings of Said Nursi / Dale F. Eickelman -- How to read Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur / Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabiʻ -- Said Nursi's interpretation of Jihād / Şükran Vahide -- Prison is a hell for the unbeliever: thoughts and reflections on two imprisoned Muslims / Ayize Jamat-Everett -- Revelation, the disciplines of reason, and truth in the works of Said Nursi and Paul Tillich / Kelton Cobb -- The concept of man: Mevlānā Jalāl al-Dīn and Said Nursi / Bilal Kuşpinar -- Forgetting Gramsci and remembering Said Nursi: parallel theories of Gramsci and Said Nursi in the space of eurocentrism / Mucahit Bilici -- The marrow of worship and the moral vision: Said Nursi and supplication / Lucinda Allen Mosher -- The separation of human philosophy from the wisdom of the Qurʼān in Said Nursi's work / Taha ʻAbdel Rahman -- The problem of theodicy in the Risale-i Nur / Mehmet S. Aydin -- The apocalypse in the teachings of Said Nursi / Barbara Freyer Stowasser -- Ghurbah as paradigm for Muslim life: a Risale-i Nur worldview / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Islam, the environment, and Said Nursi / Oliver Leaman -- Text and community: an analysis of the Risale-i Nur movement / Metin Karabaşoǧlu -- Nur study circles (Bershanes) and the formation of new religious consciousness in Turkey / M. Hakan Yavuz -- Said Nursi's project of revitalizing contemporary Islamic thought / M. Sait Özervarlı -- Preface to the al-Mathnawī al-ʻArabī al-Nūrī / Redha Ameur, translator