CONCEPT OF ISLAMIC MODERNISM AND CORANIC HERMANEUTICS BY YASAR NURI OZTURK

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Sidorenko Irina Nikolayevna – DSc (Philosophy), Аssistant Рrofessor, Head of the Department of Philosophy of Culture. Belarusian State University (9, Kal'variyskaga str., 220050, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: Iri_na2000@rambler.ru

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

 

 

Key words: Islamic modernism, Koranic hermeneutics, tradition, religion, reincarnation, language.

For citation: Sidorenko I. N., Özcan А. Сoncept of Islamic modernism and coranic hermeneutics by Yasar Nuri Ozturk. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2024, no. 1 (281), pp. 137–141 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-281-26.

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the legitimacy of the realization of Koranic hermeneutics in the reform movement of Islamic modernism. The reasons for the emergence of this movement are revealed. The authors of the article explain the position of the representatives of Islamic modernism, in particular the outstanding Turkish thinker Yashar Nuri Ozturk, in solving the issue of overcoming the backwardness of the Muslim world and the attitude to the cultural tradition of Islam. The article pays special attention to the issue of legitimacy and boundaries of interpretation of the Koran, analyzes the variant of its solution proposed by the Turkish philosopher. The main ideas of Yashar Nuri Ozturk concerning the problem of the language of religion, Sharia, education are explicated, the position of the thinker in the issues of deism and belief in reincarnation is substantiated, the essence of his criticism of religious fanaticism and fundamentalism is revealed. As a final conclusion, the authors of the article emphasize the duality of the modernist views of the Turkish thinker: on the one hand, he demonstrates adherence to the ideas of modernization of Islam, on the other hand, his views go far beyond not only Islam, but also monotheistic religion in general, which makes his approach quite adaptive in the current situation of confrontation between traditionalists and modernists.

 

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