Said Nursi and Maulana Ilyas: Examples of Pietistic Spirituality among Twentieth-Century Islamic MovementsFootnote1

1. I am indebted to Ibrahim Abu Rabi' for initially suggesting this parallel at an American Academy of Religion panel on the teachings of Said Nursi in November 2004.

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