ABSTRACT
The tensions between traditional and ontological depictions of prophethood have presented themselves in an almost dismissal of the mystical and metaphysical dimensions of prophecy in modern times. In an overwhelmingly rational approach to prophetology, modern Muslim scholars were negligent of the spiritual aspects, but this was not the case for Iqbal and Nursi. Their mystical and literary writings on prophethood suggest an alternative way as the two scholars have woven mystical and spiritual traditions along with rational thought in their works.
