Certain collections, mainly A Guide for Youth and The Staff of Moses were now reproduced for the first time in the new Latin alphabet in order to make them immediately available to the younger generation. However, "Since an important function of the Risale-i Nur" was "the preservation of the Arabic script, that of the vast majority of the Islamic world",'3 for the greater part it continued to be reproduced in that alphabet.

This much expanded activity was to have far-reaching results, for at this time, the Risale-i Nur found new students among the younger generation

who were to be important igures in the Nur movement in later years. That the Risale-i Nur answers in particular the needs of those whose ideas have been iritluenced by materialist philosophy was proved by the fact that it now began to draw people from among university students and teachers, and from among those who had been through the educational system of the Republic. Among these was the teacher in a Village Institute, Mustafa Sungur, who became one of Bediuzzaman's closest and most important students, and his
"spiritual son". Also was Mustafa Ramazanoglu, a university student, and Zübeyir Gündüzalp, who was a Post Office official and frst visited Bediuzzaman in 1946. Although Bediuzzaman appointed no successor, since, as he said, the true `üstad' of thi• Risale-i Nur movement was its `collective personality', Zübeyir Gündüzalp was to emerge as one of its leaders after 1960.
In addition, at this time the Risale-i Nur began slowly to spread to the Islamic world. This was assisted when after 1947 it became possible to go on the Hajj. Copies of some of the collections were sent to el-Ezher in Egypt, to Damascus, and Medina,l4 and some were given to a Kashmiri religious scholar who agreed to convey them to the Indian ulema.is
So also Salahaddin Çelebi in İnebolu - Bediuzzaman called him Abdurrahman Salahaddin - struck up relations witti some American missionaries and over a period of months read them The Staff of Moses and Zülfikar Collections, and gave them copies.'6