Kemal Paşazade'nin felsefi ve kelami görüşleri
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1998
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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Kemal Pashazade (İbn-i Kemal) has been one of the most important figures in the History of Turkish-Islamic Thought. This thesis aimed to determine his philosophical and kalamic ideas by examining his hand-written manuscripts. It consisted of a comprehensive look at his books whose number is around 230 and made a critical evaluation of them. As an Ottoman thinker, Kemal Pashazade wrote many books concerning philosophy and kelam. The themes that he struggled to solve in his books were among the most important questions of the area. Thus, he can be taken as a typical thinker from whom we can obtain more information about the situation of the Ottoman intellectuals of the time. In the history of Islamic thought, the debates between philosophers and the men of Kalanı sometimes became so severe that, as can be in the case of Gazzali, the men of Kalam accused the others of that they have lost their Islamic faith. Kemal Pashazade, though concealed many of his criticisms, brought some new interpretations so that he tried the philosophers to be included within the Islamic circle. He argued that the men Kelam declared the philosophers as non-religious for they believed that the universe was eternal. As a matter of the fact that, the belief in the existence of the eternal attributes eventually meant just the same thing. Ifan-i Kemal is regarded as the successor of the school of Fahraddin al-Razi which combined philosophical system of thought with the theological öne. While evaluating the basic themes of Kalam, he employed a philosophical method. This attitude resulted in his development of new perspective alien to his colleagues. While he adopted a conservative Sunni position in his simple books for the public and his fa t was, some of his interpretations of the Scripture and the philosophical questions were peculiar to himself and much out-fashioned. This study demonstrated that his true world view can be learnt from his second kind of books. Obviously, this was an understanding against the desertafion of religion to a single interpretation. Such an understanding provides the ground for making philosophy to the extent that people should not go astray. Our thesis consisted of an introduction and five separatechapters. The first chapter was concerned with a short biography of Kemal Pashazade and a critique of his works. In this chapter, we gave the lists of the works which became certain that they were his works and those which has not become certain that they were his works, and thus, which were still suspicious. In the second and the third chapters, his philosophical and kalamic ideas were discussed. In the fourth chapter, his approach concerning the heretic sects and sufi groups emerged throughout the Islamic history were handled. The chapter fifth provided his evaluations as to the concepts of human being, reason, spirit, heart, and so on. The conclusion argued the findings.
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