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The Nur movement (Turkish: Nurculuk, also known as Nurcu) is an Islamist movement that was founded in Turkey in the early 20th century and based on the writings of Said Nursi (1877–1960). His movement is based on Hanafi law and further incorporates elements of Sufism even though he was an adherent of Shafi Islam. He emphasized the importance of salvation in both this life and the afterlife through education and freedom, the synthesis of Islam and science, and democracy as the best form of governance within the rule of law.
Through faith by inquiry instead of faith by imitation, Muslims would reject philosophies such as positivism, materialism and atheism emerging from the Western world at the time. His notion of sharia is twofold. Sharia applies to the voluntary actions of human beings and denotes the set of laws of nature. Both of them ultimately derive from one source, God. His works on the Quran in the Risale-i Nur were translated into almost all of the languages of Central Asia. The Nur Movement promotes the concept of the Quran as a "living document" which needs to be continually re-interpreted. From the Nur Movement other movements such as the Gülen movement derived.
The group was opposed by the government during the 1960s and 1970s as an Islamist movement. The group became substantially fragmented in the 1970s and 1980s.
In a 1999 academic publication, the Nur movement was said to have between 2 and 6 millions adherents.
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Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Said Nursî
- Persatuan Tarbiyah Islamiyah
- Soeharto
- Islam
- Demokrasi
- Gerakan/Tentara Pembebasan Sudan
- Gerakan Patriotik Somalia
- Gerakan Ahmadiyah Lahore
- Tapak Suci Putera Muhammadiyah
- Idgitaf
- Nur movement
- Nūr (Islam)
- Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
- Mahdavi movement
- Said Nursî
- Nurul Haq Nur
- Deobandi movement
- Risale-i Nur
- Fethullah Gülen
- Gülen movement
