Theodicy and justice in modern Islamic thought : the case of Said Nursi / edited by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Imprint
Farnham : Ashgate, c2010
Descript
xiii, 268 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Theodicy and the many meanings of Adam and Eve -- Living life in the light of death: a conversation with bediuzzaman Said Nursi -- The resurrecttion of the dead and final judgment in the thought of Siad Nursi -- Proof of the resurrection of the dead: Said Nursi's approach -- Death in Nursi's thought -- La Siyyama: Nursi's treatise on al-Hashr in Mathnawi al-Nuriye -- Resurrection in the writings of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: comparative reflections with Christian Theology -- The resurrection of the dead: Said Nursi and Jurgen Moltmann -- The problem of animal pain: an introduction to Nursi's approach -- Justice, morality, and modernity: what makes the Risale-i Nur modern? -- Two epistles of consolation: Al-Shahid at-Thani and Said Nursi on theodicy -- "Landscape and melancholy:" Said Nursi, Dante Alighieri and the contexts of modernism -- Said Nursi's approach to justice and its role for political reforms in the Muslim World -- Reflections on player and social justice in the thought of Thomas Merton and Bediuzzaman siad Nursi -- God's justice in relation to natural disasters -- Justice and balance increation: Said Nursi's analysis -- Nursi's compassion and Kant's categorical imperative: justice and ethics in building a better world