Engaging with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: A Model of Interfaith Dialogue
by Ian S. Markham
By Adi Setia
Engaging with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: A Model of Interfaith Dialogue
By Ian S. Markham (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), vii + 179 pp., index. Price HB £50.00. EAN 978–0754669319.
Author Affiliations
International Islamic University Malaysia
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This book is the result of the author’s engagement with Nursi’s engagement with the challenges of state-imposed seculariztion in post-Ottoman Turkey. As a prominent Anglican theologian trying to come to grips with the secularization process in England, the United States and in the West in general, he believes that there is much that serious Christians can learn from the way Nursi, the foremost Muslim theologian of the Ottoman-Atatürk era, successfully renewed the faith of ordinary Turkish people in the face of Atatürk’s aggressive secularization of the country.
The book is divided into two parts of nine and six chapters respectively. The first part focusses on ‘learning from Said Nursi’, …
Journal of Islamic Studies (2011) 22 (3): 439-440. doi: 10.1093/jis/etr052 First published online: July 15, 2011
http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/439.extract?sid=71e06cec-2106-4968-a27d-6a4185735516