Description: This is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies, providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis, The Epistles of Light.
Brief description: Dr. Colin Turner is Reader in Islamic Thought in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His books include: Islam Without Allah? The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran (Curzon Press, 2000) and - together with Hasan Horkuc - Makers of Islamic Civilization: Said Nursi (Oxford University Press 2009).