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The concept of Tajdid (Renewal) and Islah (Reform) have strong evidences in Islam based on the Qur�an and Sunnah of the Prophet (SAAS). Islamic history has witnessed a number of reformers and reformative movements whose ultimate purpose was to bring the existing realities and social changes in line with the inspirational and universal standard of the Qur�an and the Sunnah through a process of restoration and reform to reinterpret and reopened the popular notions of Islam. During the modern age the idea of Tajdid and Islah are the most commonly mentioned terms applied in the process of reshaping the identities and in the cultural confrontation with the Western thought and ideology. Badiuzzaman Said Nursi was one among the great leaders, preachers, thinkers reformer and preachers of the 20th century who used his efforts to educate people to bring them back to the real tenets of faith and played a great role for the transformation of the Turkish Muslim society in particular and whole Muslim community in general. Having deep insight on the changing circumstances he realized that the decline of the Shari�ah leads to the establishment of dictatorial and tyrannical regimes. He was a visionary educationist who developed a new educational curriculum based on the combination of religious sciences with modern sciences. So this paper aims to analyze the elements of reformation in the Dawah of Badiuzzaman Said Nursi.