PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF THE "AHL AS-SUNNAH WA AL-JAMA'AH" AS AN INSTRUMENT OF LEGITIMACY

Year 2005, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 47 - 60, 31.12.2005

Ejder Okumuş

Abstract

“Ehlu’s-Sunne ve’l-Cemâ’a” (The Ahl as-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah - the Community of
Tradition and Congregation) is a concept which the present powerful and sovereign
group invented and employed to validate their presence, to support, to justify, namely to
legitimatize their religious, social and political reality. So, from 73 sect stated in a hadith
does it come out that the Community of Tradition and Congregation, the Saved Sect
(Firqatun-Najiyah) was created or produced as an instrument of legitimacy.
This study tries to investigate the meaning contents of production of the Ahl asSunnah
wa al-Jama'ah as an instrument of legitimacy from the social, political and cultural
viewpoint. In the study, the matter is considered in its sociological dimensions and an
understanding approach, and with determinations, descriptions and interpretations.

“EHL-İ SÜNNET VE’L-CEMAAT”İN BİR MEŞRÛİYET ARACI OLARAK İCAT VE İSTİHDAMI

Abstract