PROJECT OF ISLAMIC MODERNISM IN PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE OF J. AFGHANI

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 Aydın Özcan – PhD student, the Department of Philosophy of Culture. Belarusian State University (9, Kal'variyskaya str., 220050, Minsk, Republic of Belarus); Counsellor for Religious Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye in Minsk (6, Volodarskogo str., 220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: bursa-54@hotmail.com

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.52065/2520-6885-2023-275-2-18 (In Russian).

Key words: Islamic modernism, postcolonial studies, identity, religion, science, tradition.

For citation: Ozdjan A. Project of Islamic modernism in philosophical and religious doctrine of J. Afghani. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2023, no. 2 (275), pp. 98–102. DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2023-275-2-18 (In Russian).

Abstract

In this article the historical and philosophical reconstruction of Jamaleddin Afghani's concepts of Islamic modernism is carried out. The author of the article considers Islamic modernism as a response and reaction to the dominant position of Western civilization towards the Muslim world. Despite the fact that Turkey cannot be unequivocally assessed as a post-colonial country, but rather as a post-Western one, the article makes a statement about the points of intersection between post-colonial studies and theoretical versions of Islamic modernism: in the struggle for resources and political hegemony, the struggle for identity is significant. Representatives of Islamic modernism, in particular such a prominent thinker and activist as J. Afghani, see in Islam not only the basis of national identity of a representative of the Muslim world, but also a means of socio-cultural regulation of relations in modern Muslim society, as well as adaptation to innovations and cardinal transformations of the world. The analysis of J. Afghani's concept of Islamic modernism allowed us to note its peculiarity: the realization of the tasks of the actual revival of Muslim identity against the background of the increasing influence of Western culture is possible only if there is a return to the original ideological purity and spiritual integrity of the Islamic religious tradition.

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