Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Wonder of the Age)Author: Ramazan Balci In the many dimensions of his lifetime of achievement as well as in his personality and character, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877 1960) was and, through his continuing influence, still is an important thinker and writer in the Muslim world. Nursi lived in Turkey during a troublesome transition period; he witnessed the last days of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of a secular Turkish republic. He lived in an age when materialism