Review Article

BASIC CONCEPTS OF TURKISH POLITICAL THOUGHT: YUSUF HAS HACIB’S INVENTION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE WORLD

Volume: 4 Number: 2 May 29, 2024
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BASIC CONCEPTS OF TURKISH POLITICAL THOUGHT: YUSUF HAS HACIB’S INVENTION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The world of Turkish thought is a treasure waiting to be discovered. Archaeological research on the world of Turkish thought should therefore be increased, but here the word archaeological should be understood in the context of knowledge and wisdom. Yusuf Has Hacib's Kutadgu Bilig, on the one hand, has presented many original concept perspectives to the science of management and on the other hand to the world of Turkish thought. One of the most important concepts Yusuf Has Hacib introduced to Turkish political thought in this work was his invention of the concept of dünya. The concept of the dünya was first introduced into Turkish by him and has been widely used and is still widely used. Yusuf Has Hacib, in his work Kutadgu Bilig, which he wrote to give a political direction to the Turkish-Islamic empires that emerged in the political environment of the 11th century, invented the concept of the dünya, which is widely used today, by making use of the Arabic word al-dunya. While inventing the concept of the dünya, firstly, the difference in meaning was revealed by using it together with words with similar meanings, and then the word was used independently after its meaning became clear. In this framework, the development of the meaning of the concept is based on both the concrete-abstract dialectic and the non-human-human dialectic.

Keywords

(the World) , ikileme (dialectical) , Yusuf Has Hacib , Kutadgu Bilig

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APA
Kocaoğlu, F. (2024). TÜRK SİYASAL DÜŞÜNCESİNİN TEMEL KAVRAMLARI: YUSUF HAS HACİB’İN DÜNYA KAVRAMINI İCADI. SDE Akademi, 4(2), 307-332. https://doi.org/10.58375/sde.1488504