Muhammad Emin Er (c. 1914 – 27 June 2013) was an Islamic scholar trained in the Ottoman tradition and former student of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi. He was born in the Ottoman province of

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and his family belonged to a

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ish tribe called Miran. Emin Er has published a large number of books in Arabic, focusing on the basic disciplines within Arabic

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(such as morphology,

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituenc ...

, and

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), as well as more advanced disciplines (such as

Islamic law Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the ...

, especially in relation to spiritual psychology, or

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). He has stated that a major goal of his scholarship is to adapt the traditional religious sciences of

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to present-day needs and concerns. Emin Er is known for statements concerning the compatibility of Islamic thought with the teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, in particular that the rigorous emulation of the life of

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necessarily leads the believer to the emulation of Jesus and Moses.Muhammad Emin Er, ''Laws of the Heart: A Practical Introduction to the Sufi Path'', Shifâ Publishers, 2008,

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