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İslam'ı Seküler Ahlakla Uyumlu Hale Getirmek: Almanya'daki İslami Din Ders Kitapları Örneği

Year 2025, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 225 - 242, 06.12.2025

Kemal İnal

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Alman İslam din eğitiminde kullanılan ders kitaplarından seçilen metinlerin analizine dayanmaktadır. Bu analizin teorik temeli, Habermas'ın çeviriye yaklaşımıdır. Ampirik analizde, çeşitli İslami kavramları seküler ahlaka çevirmek için kullanılan terimler yeniden yapılandırılmıştır. İslami din ders kitaplarının, öğrenenlerin bu çeviri süreciyle öz-yansıtma, eleştiri ve yorumlama yapmalarını sağladıkları ölçüde, pedagojik-didaktik açıdan demokratikleşmeye katkıda bulundukları ortaya çıkmıştır. Ancak, bu ders kitaplarının bazı çelişkileri, gerilimleri ve ikilemleri de ortaya çıkmıştır.

Keywords

Habermas İslam Çeviri Ahlak Metin

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Translating Islam into Secular Morality: The Example of Islamic Religious Textbooks in Germany

Year 2025, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 225 - 242, 06.12.2025

Kemal İnal

Abstract

This study is based on the analysis of selected texts from textbooks used in German Islamic religious education. The theoretical basis of this analysis is Habermas's approach to transla-tion. In the empirical analysis, the terms used to translate various Islamic concepts into se-cular morality were reconstructed. It became clear that the Islamic religious textbooks are conducive to democratization in a pedagogical-didactic way, insofar as they enable the lear-ning subjects to engage in self-reflection, criticism, and interpretation through this transla-tion process. However, some contradictions, tensions, and dilemmas of these textbooks also became evident.

Keywords

Habermas Islam Translation Morality Textbook

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  • Aslan, E., Rausch, M. (Eds.). (2013). Islamic Education in Secular Societies. Peter Lang.
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  • Engebretson, K. (2000). The Melbourne Archdiocesan Textbook Project: An Innovation in Australian Religious Education. Journal of Religious Education, 48(2), 28-32.
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  • Finlayson, J. G. (2018). No Proviso: Habermas on Rawls, Religion and Public reason, European Journal of Political Theory, 20(3), 1-22.
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  • Sarıkaya, Y. (2011). Islamic Religious Education in Germany: Curricula and Textbooks”, pp. 113-122 In Ednan Aslan (ed.) Islamic Textbooks and Curricula in Europe, Peter Lang.
  • Sarıkaya, Y. & Aygün, A. (2016). Islamic Religious Education: Key Questions from Theory, Empiricism and Practice, Waxmann.
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  • Schröder, J. I. (Ed.) (2020). Islam Didactics: Practical Handbook for Secondary Levels I and II, Cornelsen.
  • Schmitt, C. (1934). Political Theology. Vier Kapitel zur Lehre von der Souveränität, Verlag von Duncker and Humblot.
  • Shaposhnikova, T. D., Tatyana, A., Kostyukova, R., I. Zianshina, Tatyana, M., G. (2021), The Textbooks as Instrument for Managing the Interaction of Secular and Religious Education”, pp. 812-819, Proceedings TSNI2021, 0812-0819 doi: 10.3897/ap.4.e0812.
  • Stoeckl, K. (2017). Political Liberalism and Religious Claims: Four Blind Spots, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(1), 34-50.
  • Twardella, J. (2012). Der Koran in der Schules: Studien zum islamischen Religionsunterricht, Humanities Online.
  • Ucar, B. & Danja, B. (2010). Islamic Religious Education in Germany: Didactic Concepts: Ausgangslage, Erwartungen und Ziele, V and R Unipress, Osnabrück University Press.
  • Ulfat, F. & Ghandour, A. (2020). Islamische Bildungsarbeit in der Schule: theologische und didaktische überlegungen zum Umgang mit ausgewählten Themen in islamischen Religionsunterricht, Springer VS Wiesbaden.
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  • Walhof, D. R. (2013). Habermas, Same-Sex Marriage and the Problem of Religion in Public Life, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39(3), 225-242.
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  • Wiedenroth-G. I. (2019). Cultural Diversity in Schools: Islam as a Challenge, Verlag W. Kohlhammer.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Migration Sociology
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Kemal İnal 0009-0003-2252-4913

Submission Date July 3, 2025
Acceptance Date October 26, 2025
Publication Date December 6, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Volume: 5 Issue: 2

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APA İnal, K. (2025). Translating Islam into Secular Morality: The Example of Islamic Religious Textbooks in Germany. İnsan Hareketliliği Uluslararası Dergisi, 5(2), 225-242.