SİYASAL-SOSYAL GÖRÜŞLERİ VE DİNİ YÖNÜYLE AFGANİ1 (Son Bir Umut: İslam Birliği)

Year 2008, Volume: 1 Issue: 6, 265 - 278, 30.11.2008

Muammer Esen

Abstract

As a religious scholar, al-Afghani, who is the most prominent Pan-Islamist
figure of the modern history of Islam with a robust anti-imperialistic stan
ce, has been a subject of controversy in terms of his life, personality, na
tionality and school of thought to which he belonged. He traveled to many
countries, especially the significant political and cultural centers of the
Muslim world, in order to warn Muslims of his time against the imperialist
powers. Emphasizing the importance of a sound understanding of religi
on cleansed from superstitions, al-Afghani thought that a religion founded
upon a sound basis of wisdom is centered around human happiness. And
in his view, good deeds result from a genuine faith. Although he thinks
that the creedal sects (schools of thought) are needed for human beings, he
disapproves of their being a cause of disintegration by being transformed
into a religion. Ijtihad, independent religious judgment, has a crucial role
in his thought.

Keywords

Afganî, Pan- İslamist, anti- emperyalist, modernist, din, mezhep, ictihad

AL-AFGHANI AND HIS SOCIO-POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS VIEWS

Abstract

As a religious scholar, al-Afghani, who is the most prominent Pan-Islamist
figure of the modern history of Islam with a robust anti-imperialistic stan
ce, has been a subject of controversy in terms of his life, personality, na
tionality and school of thought to which he belonged. He traveled to many
countries, especially the significant political and cultural centers of the
Muslim world, in order to warn Muslims of his time against the imperialist
powers. Emphasizing the importance of a sound understanding of religi
on cleansed from superstitions, al-Afghani thought that a religion founded
upon a sound basis of wisdom is centered around human happiness. And
in his view, good deeds result from a genuine faith. Although he thinks
that the creedal sects (schools of thought) are needed for human beings, he
disapproves of their being a cause of disintegration by being transformed
into a religion. Ijtihad, independent religious judgment, has a crucial role
in his thought.

Keywords

Afganî, Pan- İslamist, anti- emperyalist, modernist, din, mezhep, ictihad

References

• Afganî, Cemaleddin, Hâtırâtu Cemâleddîn el-Efgânî el-Huseynî, (haz. Muhammed Bâşâ el-Mah zûmî), Beyrut 1931.