id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1361 Said Nursî - Wikipedia .html text/html 6417 1243 82 Said Nursi (Ottoman Turkish: سعيد نورسی‎, Kurdish: Seîdê Nursî ,سەعید نوورسی‎[18][19]‎; 1877[1] – 23 March 1960), also spelled Said-i Nursî or Said-i Kurdî[20][21] and commonly known with the honorific Bediüzzaman (meaning "wonder of the age"), or simply Üstad (meaning "master")[22] was a Kurdish Sunni Muslim theologian who wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, a body of Qur'anic commentary exceeding six thousand pages.[23][24] Believing that modern science and logic was the way of the future, he advocated teaching religious sciences in secular schools and modern sciences in religious schools.[23][24][25] Nursi inspired a religious movement[26][27] that has played a vital role in the revival of Islam in Turkey and now numbers several millions of followers worldwide.[28][29] His followers, often known as the "Nurcu movement" or the "Nur cemaati".[30] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1361.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1361.txt