Qur'anic commentary, public space, and religious intellectuals in the writings of said Nursi

Muslim World

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 260-269

  Eickelman, Dale F ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33746831868     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1999.tb02747.x     Document Type: Article

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3. th September 1995, vol. 2 (Istanbul: Sözler Press, 1997), 335.
4. For an earlier discussion of this issue, see Dale F. Eickelman, "Islamic Religious Commentaries and Lesson Circles: Is There a Copernican Revolution?" Aporemata, 4, in press.
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7. Edward Shils, The Intellectuals and the Powers and Otner Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), 16.
8. For an excellent review essay on this issue, see Robert W. Hefner, "Multiple Modernities: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in a Globalizing Age," Annual Review of Anthropology, 27 (1988): 83-104.
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10. See also, Vahide, The Author of the Risale-i Nur.
11. For an overview of modernization theory as it was used to explain developments in Muslim-majority societies, including Turkey and Iran, see Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 22-28
12. and Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington, Understanding Political Development: An Analytical Study (New York: HarperCollins, 1987).
13. Yavuz, "Print-Based Islamic Discourse," 342-50.
14. Said Nursi, The Damascus, second ed. (Istanbul: Sözler Publications, 1955).
15. Mardin, Religion and Society, 68.
16. For Morocco, see Dale F. Eickleman, Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth Century Notable (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), especially 57-106
17. for Turkey, see Mardin, Religion and Social Change, 119.
18. Nursi, Flashes, 45-50.
19. Vahide, The Author of, 217.
20. Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, "Beduizzman Said Nursi's Experience of Serving Islam by Means of Politics,' in Third International Symposium, vol. 1, 111-21.
21. See Dale F. Eickelman, "Mass Higher Education and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary Arab Societies,' American Ethnologist 19, no. 4 (November 1992): 645-46
22. see also Dale F. Eickelman and Jon Anderson, "Print, Islam, and the Prospects for Civil Pluralism: New Religious Writings and Their Audiences," Journal of Islamic Studies 8, no. 1 (January 1997): 43-62.
23. Shmuel Eisenstadt, Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 396-426.
24. Armando Salvatore, "Staging Virtue: The Disembodiment of Self-Correctedness and the Making of Islam as a Public Norm," Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 1 (1998), 89-90.
25. Michael Warner, The Letters of tie Republic (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 42-43.
26. Armando Salvatore, Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (Reading UK: Ithaca Press, 1997), 55-56.
27. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationaiism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), 28-29.