Modern Interpretation of the Qur’an: The Contribution of Said Nursi - Risale Academy Series

Описание: In this program we'll focus on Qur’an and exegesis, new kalām movement, ihya’ (revival) and tajdīd (renewal) attempts in early Muslim modernism. A special focus is on Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.

The existing literature indicates Nursi’s multi-disciplinary approach in his collection. Nursi has a Qur’an-based methodology and combined the essence of what the Islamic disciplines included in a different form. This book emphasizes that Nursi’s revival of Islam and his renewal (tajdid) are based on Islamic systematic theology (kalām), and Nursi seeks to formulate an Islamic metaphysics and theology primarily based on the Qur’an by using multiple fields. Moreover, Nursi’s collection is a kind of spiritual exegesis (maʿnawī tafsīr), a commentary on the Qur’an’s meanings. In addition, while the main books of the collection can also be considered as a kind of thematic exegesis, he primarily developed the theory of the word-order (naẓm) in his one-volume commentary on the Qur’an.

Program date: May 30, 2021
Day: Sunday
Time: 7 PM (New York - EST)
Houston - 6 PM
California - 4 PM
England - 00.00 (Next day)
Germany, France, Egypt - 01.00 (Next day)
Sydney: 10.00 AM (Next day)

Distinguished speaker of the program: Dr. Hakan Coruh
Moderator: Dr. Zuleyha Colak

DR. HAKAN CORUH is a lecturer of Islamic Studies at CISAC, Charles Sturt University. He completed his PhD at Australian Catholic University in 2015. His PhD research is on early modern exegesis of the Qur’an (Said Nursi, Muhammad ‘Abduh, and Sir Ahmad Khan). Moreover, Hakan's main research interests are the classical and modern Qur'an exegesis, contemporary Islamic thought, Islamic Legal Theories (usul al-fiqh) and Jurisprudence (fiqh), Islamic Ethics (akhlaq), Islamic theology (kalām), and Comparative Theology. Furthermore, he has been a principal supervisor for 4 HDR candidates, supervising many honours and coursework students as well. He has been Higher Degrees Research Coordinator for masters and PhD candidates in the Centre since 2020. In addition, Hakan is actively involved in academic associations and community organisations. Hakan is currently the member of the Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS), the member of PACT (Centre for Public and Contextual Theology), and Practical and Public Ethics Research Group (PAPER) under Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University.

DR. ZULEYHA COLAK is a Senior Lecturer and coordinator of Turkish and Ottoman Language program at Middle Eastern Studies department at Columbia University. Previously she taught at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis in Global Studies department between 2005-2010. She received her B. A. in Arabic Language and Literature from Istanbul University, Turkey (1998). She holds two masters’ degrees, one in comparative literature in Arabic Literature in Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (2000), and one in Central Eurasian Studies/Ottoman and Modern Turkish studies at Indiana University (2003). Her Ph. D dissertation is on the portrayal of Women of Biblical and Quranic Joseph Story from Indiana University in 2010. She has been a board member at Respect Graduate school in Bethlehem, PA and voluntarily teaching courses on Islam. Some courses are Islam 101, Who is Muhammad? and recently a graduate course on Essentials of Islamic Spirituality.

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