Research Article

A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun

Number: 95 October 19, 2020
  • Kemal Şamlıoğlu
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A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun

Abstract

State is a fact on which human sciences have mostly produced problems in theoretical context. This study is intended to deal with the views of Namık Kemal, a philosopher of Tanzimat, on the state from political, cultural and literary perspectives. While examining Namık Kemal’s view of the state, especially Ibn Haldun, who tried to determine the theoretical foundations of the state on the basis of Islamic civilization, would offer a chance for a sample comparison. Determining a five-step anthropomorphic theoretical framework that would affect the western world, Ibn Haldun qualifies the state with the process of rise-and-fall like a natural human life. In this sense, the state is designed as a finite organic structure and is supposed to face a natural process of death or fall in the course of time. On the contrary, Namık Kemal suggests that the state could as well be sustained if man kept his conditions along with sustainable cultural and spiritual foundations. In a sense, the political theory that the state could keep alive with man is worth thinking over within the context of Namık Kemal.

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Kemal Şamlıoğlu This is me
0000-0003-4765-5592
Türkiye

Publication Date

October 19, 2020

Submission Date

January 23, 2020

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2020 Number: 95

APA
Şamlıoğlu, K. (2020). A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun. Bilig, 95, 27-46. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.95002
AMA
1.Şamlıoğlu K. A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun. Bilig. 2020;(95):27-46. doi:10.12995/bilig.95002
Chicago
Şamlıoğlu, Kemal. 2020. “A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun”. Bilig, nos. 95: 27-46. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.95002.
EndNote
Şamlıoğlu K (October 1, 2020) A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun. Bilig 95 27–46.
IEEE
[1]K. Şamlıoğlu, “A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun”, Bilig, no. 95, pp. 27–46, Oct. 2020, doi: 10.12995/bilig.95002.
ISNAD
Şamlıoğlu, Kemal. “A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun”. Bilig. 95 (October 1, 2020): 27-46. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.95002.
JAMA
1.Şamlıoğlu K. A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun. Bilig. 2020;:27–46.
MLA
Şamlıoğlu, Kemal. “A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun”. Bilig, no. 95, Oct. 2020, pp. 27-46, doi:10.12995/bilig.95002.
Vancouver
1.Kemal Şamlıoğlu. A Comparative Essay on the Perception of State in Turkish Thought: Namık Kemal and Ibn Haldun. Bilig. 2020 Oct. 1;(95):27-46. doi:10.12995/bilig.95002

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