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Synopsis
What do you do when the world tries everything to break you -- and fails?
You know what it is to be pushed to a corner you did not choose. To have something you love threatened by people more powerful than you. To wonder, in your hardest hour, whether holding on to who you are is even worth the cost.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi knew that corner better than almost anyone in the twentieth century. Born in a mountain village in eastern Anatolia, he finished a fifteen-year course of Islamic scholarship in three months as a boy, commanded troops on a collapsing empire's front line during the First World War, and knelt in prayer before a Russian firing squad in the seconds before the order to fire was rescinded. Then came the real trial: a new, secularizing state that exiled him, tried him twice on fabricated charges, poisoned him nineteen times across three imprisonments, and, even after his natural death, dug up his grave in secret rather than let it become a place people gathered to remember him. Instead of breaking him, this campaign of persecution produced, from a freezing exile hut and a series of prison cells, six thousand pages of writing that now reach an estimated readership in the tens of millions.
In these pages, you will:
Watch a man decide, once and for all, exactly what he will not let the world take from him
Feel the specific, tested difference between suffering and surrender
Recognize the quiet discipline that lets a person hold steady when everything external is stripped away
Understand why a government spent thirty-five years trying to silence one man, and why it never once succeeded
Carry away a working answer to the question every hard season eventually asks: who are you when it's all gone?
This is a book for anyone who has ever felt the ground shift beneath something they built their life around, and wondered what, if anything, would still be standing afterward.
He lost his freedom, his health, his comfort, and even his own grave. He never once lost himself.
Open the first page. What was never taken from him is still yours to find.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What do you do when the world tries everything to break you -- and fails? You know what it is to be pushed to a corner you did not choose. To have something you love threatened by people more powerful than you. To wonder, in your hardest hour, whether holding on to who you are is even worth the cost. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi knew that corner better than almost anyone in the twentieth century. Born in a mountain village in eastern Anatolia, he finished a fifteen-year course of Islamic scholarship in three months as a boy, commanded troops on a collapsing empire's front line during the First World War, and knelt in prayer before a Russian firing squad in the seconds before the order to fire was rescinded. Then came the real trial: a new, secularizing state that exiled him, tried him twice on fabricated charges, poisoned him nineteen times across three imprisonments, and, even after his natural death, dug up his grave in secret rather than let it become a place people gathered to remember him. Instead of breaking him, this campaign of persecution produced, from a freezing exile hut and a series of prison cells, six thousand pages of writing that now reach an estimated readership in the tens of millions. In these pages, you will: Watch a man decide, once and for all, exactly what he will not let the world take from himFeel the specific, tested difference between suffering and surrenderRecognize the quiet discipline that lets a person hold steady when everything external is stripped awayUnderstand why a government spent thirty-five years trying to silence one man, and why it never once succeededCarry away a working answer to the question every hard season eventually asks: who are you when it's all gone? This is a book for anyone who has ever felt the ground shift beneath something they built their life around, and wondered what, if anything, would still be standing afterward. He lost his freedom, his health, his comfort, and even his own grave. He never once lost himself. Open the first page. What was never taken from him is still yours to find. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185779903
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What do you do when the world tries everything to break you -- and fails? You know what it is to be pushed to a corner you did not choose. To have something you love threatened by people more powerful than you. To wonder, in your hardest hour, whether holding on to who you are is even worth the cost. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi knew that corner better than almost anyone in the twentieth century. Born in a mountain village in eastern Anatolia, he finished a fifteen-year course of Islamic scholarship in three months as a boy, commanded troops on a collapsing empire's front line during the First World War, and knelt in prayer before a Russian firing squad in the seconds before the order to fire was rescinded. Then came the real trial: a new, secularizing state that exiled him, tried him twice on fabricated charges, poisoned him nineteen times across three imprisonments, and, even after his natural death, dug up his grave in secret rather than let it become a place people gathered to remember him. Instead of breaking him, this campaign of persecution produced, from a freezing exile hut and a series of prison cells, six thousand pages of writing that now reach an estimated readership in the tens of millions. In these pages, you will: Watch a man decide, once and for all, exactly what he will not let the world take from himFeel the specific, tested difference between suffering and surrenderRecognize the quiet discipline that lets a person hold steady when everything external is stripped awayUnderstand why a government spent thirty-five years trying to silence one man, and why it never once succeededCarry away a working answer to the question every hard season eventually asks: who are you when it's all gone? This is a book for anyone who has ever felt the ground shift beneath something they built their life around, and wondered what, if anything, would still be standing afterward. He lost his freedom, his health, his comfort, and even his own grave. He never once lost himself. Open the first page. What was never taken from him is still yours to find. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185779903
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