General Principles in the Risale-i Nur Collection for a True Understanding of Islam

by Unal, Ali

• ISBN13: 9781597843690
• ISBN10: 1597843695
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-07
• Publisher: Tughra Books

Summary

TheRisale-i Nur Collection is full of "general principles," not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge. Based on or specially favored with profound wisdom having its source in the Divine Wisdom or the Divine Name of the All-Wise, the Risale-i Nur Collection contains numerous principles, precepts, or maxims which are standards or brilliant criteria enabling people to think, believe, and live according to Islam, and to evaluate and judge things and events in Islam’s light. They also provide people with the essentials or basic principles on which the branches of Islamic knowledge and Islamic science are based. Thus, we have tried to collect many of these principles in this book under certain titles, and in certain parts or sections according to the fields of thought and branches of knowledge to which they have a greater relevance.

Author Biography

Ali Unal is a renowned scholar and a prolific translator of works with an Islamic theme into English. He has written for many periodicals and is a columnist for Zaman daily newspaper. His published books include How to Live as a Muslim series, Islamic Perspectives on Science, Islam Addresses Contemporary Issues, the Resurrection and the Afterlife, and The Qur’an with Annotated Interpretation in Modern English.