Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Care for Women Through His Writings

Abstract

This article falls within the contemporary Islamic feminist debate, as women in Islam have always been accused of being marginalized in making religious discourse and representing them within its fields, which calls for reconsidering the validity of these claims by matching them with historical reality and tracking its details. To examine this issue, the researcher will try to question the role of women. In the writings of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, founder of one of the most famous religious movements in modern Turkey, by induction the places in which women were mentioned in the founding text of the movement Risale-i Nur. and its universal Islamic principles. This founding text is also a historical reference document in tracing the path of Risale-i Nur and the role of the female element in spreading its principles.