Research Article

FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION

Number: 1 August 31, 2026
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FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION

Abstract

Contemporary education systems often face a tension between exam-oriented expectations and the aim of integrating cognitive development with moral, social, and spiritual formation. This study examines the educationally relevant ideas found in the works of Fārābī and Māturīdī and in the Dīwān-i Ḥikmat tradition associated with Aḥmad Yasawī within their historical and intellectual contexts. It aims to identify their principal concepts, shared concerns, and differences and to assess their historical relevance to contemporary educational debates. The study employs qualitative document analysis. Its primary sources are Fārābī’s al-Madīnat al-Fāḍila and Taḥṣīl al-Saʿāda, Māturīdī’s Kitāb al-Tawḥīd and Taʾwīlāt al-Qurʾān, and the Dīwān-i Ḥikmat. The findings reveal three distinct approaches to human formation. Fārābī relates education to happiness, virtue, practical competence, and civic cooperation. Māturīdī’s theological and exegetical discussions connect human formation with reason, revelation, free choice, knowledge, action, and justice. The Yasawī tradition emphasises the disciplining of the nafs, servitude, intention, action, poetic counsel, and spiritual guidance. These perspectives do not offer directly transferable educational models, but they provide historically grounded resources for discussing educational purpose, moral formation, and the relationship between knowledge and conduct.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Alawism Bektashism Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

August 31, 2026

Submission Date

May 26, 2025

Acceptance Date

June 18, 2026

Published in Issue

Year 2026 Number: 1

APA
Doğan, R., & Rahmatillaeva, D. (2026). FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION. Türk Kültürü Ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, 1, 355-379. https://doi.org/10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271
AMA
1.Doğan R, Rahmatillaeva D. FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi. 2026;(1):355-379. doi:10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271
Chicago
Doğan, Recai, and Dilnoza Rahmatillaeva. 2026. “FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION”. Türk Kültürü Ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, no. 1: 355-79. https://doi.org/10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271.
EndNote
Doğan R, Rahmatillaeva D (August 1, 2026) FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi 1 355–379.
IEEE
[1]R. Doğan and D. Rahmatillaeva, “FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION”, Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, no. 1, pp. 355–379, Aug. 2026, doi: 10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271.
ISNAD
Doğan, Recai - Rahmatillaeva, Dilnoza. “FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION”. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi. 1 (August 1, 2026): 355-379. https://doi.org/10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271.
JAMA
1.Doğan R, Rahmatillaeva D. FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi. 2026;:355–379.
MLA
Doğan, Recai, and Dilnoza Rahmatillaeva. “FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION”. Türk Kültürü Ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, no. 1, Aug. 2026, pp. 355-79, doi:10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271.
Vancouver
1.Recai Doğan, Dilnoza Rahmatillaeva. FĀRĀBĪ, MĀTURĪDĪ AND AḤMAD YASAWĪ’S UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION IN THE TURKESTAN TURKISH-ISLAMIC TRADITION. Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi. 2026 Aug. 1;(1):355-79. doi:10.60163/tkhcbva.1706271

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