Intellectual Subordination: Late Ottoman Thinkers between Jurisprudence and Sociology

Name: Intellectual Subordination: Late Ottoman Thinkers between Jurisprudence and Sociology
Author: Şentürk, Recep

Title	Intellectual Subordination: Late Ottoman Thinkers between Jurisprudence and Sociology
Author	Şentürk, Recep
Publication Place	Doha - Qatar University Press
Subject	19th century, Dependency, Human beings, Intellectuals, Islam, Lawyers, Muslims, Science, Social sciences
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID	ISSN: 2664-7869, EISSN: 2664-7877, DOI: 10.29117/tis.2020.0027
Record ID	cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_5d8753e792834f8781ca2f05e3050b50
Library Location	Social Science Database (Proquest), DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, ProQuest Central
Notes	Modernity has led to the intellectual subordination of the Islamic world to the West in terms of social theories. Human action (work) is the subject of research in both jurisprudence and Western sociology (among all those sciences that attempt to apply empirical methods derived from the natural sciences to the scope of human society, including education and law). Although they differ in many ways, they extend over overlapping intellectual domains. Sociology in its various forms has invaded the field normally occupied by jurisprudence, and its professional representatives, such as academics, jurists, educators, and writers, have replaced jurists. This article refers to the dialectical conflict between jurisprudence and Western sociology that has shaped the history of Islamic thought since the nineteenth century, and reveals that underlying conflict by giving examples of late Ottoman thinkers, such as Ziya Gökalp, Said Halim Pasha, and İzmirli İsmail Hakki. This conflict in the Ottoman case created a new rift in the Islamic intellectual community between advocates of sociology and advocates of jurisprudence. But many thinkers, and even some jurists, tried to find a synthesis between both fields. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the modern Turkish Republic adopted a policy of wholesale Westernization, one of the elements of which was adopting Western sociology to replace jurisprudence in explaining and ordering human action. This interference in intellectual life increased the dependence of contemporary Turkish thinkers on the state, which is another aspect of their dependence that this article details. The confrontation that increased in intensity between Islamic and Western civilizations during the nineteenth century also finally led to the linking of European jurisprudence and sociology between Ottoman thinkers.
Telif Hakkı	2020. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.
Görüntüle	Tajser, 2020-06, Vol.2 (1), p.9

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Intellectual Subordination: Late Ottoman Thinkers between Jurisprudence and Sociology

Author Şentürk, Recep

Publication Place Doha - Qatar University Press

Subject 19th century, Dependency, Human beings, Intellectuals, Islam, Lawyers, Muslims, Science, Social sciences

Type Book

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Royal Danish Library

Library Asset ID ISSN: 2664-7869, EISSN: 2664-7877, DOI: 10.29117/tis.2020.0027

Record ID cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_5d8753e792834f8781ca2f05e3050b50

Library Location Social Science Database (Proquest), DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, ProQuest Central

Notes Modernity has led to the intellectual subordination of the Islamic world to the West in terms of social theories. Human action (work) is the subject of research in both jurisprudence and Western sociology (among all those sciences that attempt to apply empirical methods derived from the natural sciences to the scope of human society, including education and law). Although they differ in many ways, they extend over overlapping intellectual domains. Sociology in its various forms has invaded the field normally occupied by jurisprudence, and its professional representatives, such as academics, jurists, educators, and writers, have replaced jurists. This article refers to the dialectical conflict between jurisprudence and Western sociology that has shaped the history of Islamic thought since the nineteenth century, and reveals that underlying conflict by giving examples of late Ottoman thinkers, such as Ziya Gökalp, Said Halim Pasha, and İzmirli İsmail Hakki. This conflict in the Ottoman case created a new rift in the Islamic intellectual community between advocates of sociology and advocates of jurisprudence. But many thinkers, and even some jurists, tried to find a synthesis between both fields. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the modern Turkish Republic adopted a policy of wholesale Westernization, one of the elements of which was adopting Western sociology to replace jurisprudence in explaining and ordering human action. This interference in intellectual life increased the dependence of contemporary Turkish thinkers on the state, which is another aspect of their dependence that this article details. The confrontation that increased in intensity between Islamic and Western civilizations during the nineteenth century also finally led to the linking of European jurisprudence and sociology between Ottoman thinkers.

Telif Hakkı 2020. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Görüntüle Tajser, 2020-06, Vol.2 (1), p.9