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The concluding chapter looks at the Late Ottomans’ impact on modern Islamic thought. It gives a summary of the work and thought of Akif, Sabri, and Kevseri, then examines the work and thought of Said Nursi in order to give a comparative analysis of their role in the formation of Islamist ideology in modern Turkey.

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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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6 - The Late Ottomans’ Impact on Modern Islamic Thought

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10 - Occasionalism in the Modern Context

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