Said Nursi’s cause-wisdom congruence method as a method of social analysis
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Is it possible to analyze social reality outside a secular, positivist and materialist perspective? Is it possible to understand and explain social phenomena and events with a methodology other than cause-effect determinism? Does revelation-centered thought provide us with this opportunity and methodology? These questions are the main motivational element of this study. I will seek the answers to these questions in the context of the cause-wisdom congruence method of Said Nursi, an Islamic scholar and Qur’an commentator. The methodology in question, which will be presented for the first time in this study, is based on evaluating the possibilities of reason and revelation together, going beyond the secular understanding of knowledge and science in analyzing social reality. Within the study’s limitations, application examples of Nursi’s methodology are also included. I hope that this method, which can also be described as the sociology of wisdom, will add new dimensions to interdisciplinary discussions, especially sociology.
Source: Cogent Social Sciences
Author: Sadettin Orhan
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,165
OpenAlex ID: W4410241087