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The Man They Could Not Silence: The Prison Years of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

The Man They Could Not Silence: The Prison Years of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Hikma, Narin

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Religious BiographiesReligion General Islam

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ISBN13: 9798185779903
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What do you do when the world tries everything to break you -- and fails?

You know what it is to be pushed to a corner you did not choose. To have something you love threatened by people more powerful than you. To wonder, in your hardest hour, whether holding on to who you are is even worth the cost.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi knew that corner better than almost anyone in the twentieth century. Born in a mountain village in eastern Anatolia, he finished a fifteen-year course of Islamic scholarship in three months as a boy, commanded troops on a collapsing empire's front line during the First World War, and knelt in prayer before a Russian firing squad in the seconds before the order to fire was rescinded. Then came the real trial: a new, secularizing state that exiled him, tried him twice on fabricated charges, poisoned him nineteen times across three imprisonments, and, even after his natural death, dug up his grave in secret rather than let it become a place people gathered to remember him. Instead of breaking him, this campaign of persecution produced, from a freezing exile hut and a series of prison cells, six thousand pages of writing that now reach an estimated readership in the tens of millions.

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