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10 - Occasionalism in the Modern Context

The Case of Said Nursi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

Özgür Koca
Affiliation:
Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School
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The tenth chapter focuses on a contemporary approach to causality. Here, I offer a detailed survey of Said Nursi’s account of causality. Nursi’s neo-occasionalism makes original contributions to Ashʿarite occasionalist metaphysics of causation while integrating it with Ibn ‘Arabī’s theory of Divine Self-Disclosure. As such, his theory of causality suggests an interesting meeting point of kalām and Sufi metaphysics. He also defends and emphasizes the idea of disproportionality of cause and effect in an unprecedented way in the history of Islamic occasionalism. The chapter also analyzes Nursi’s treatment of free will and theodicy.

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Islam, Causality, and Freedom
From the Medieval to the Modern Era
, pp. 200 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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