Japonya'nın Birunî'si Abdürreşid İbrahim ve Dinler Tarihi

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özcan, Şevket, author.

Language:

Turkish

Physical Description:

136 pages

Language Note:

Turkish

Notes:

Abdurreshid Ibrahim (d. 1944) was a prominent Ottoman intellectual. Due to the methodology he adopted and the information he provided in his book Âlem-i Islâm and in the treatises Vicdan Muhakemesi ve İnsaf Terazisi and Dîn-i Fıtrî, which we have included in Turkish in our study, he can be regarded as a historian of religions. At the same time, due to his observations and insights on religions during his time in Japan, he can also be described as the “Al-Biruni of Japan.” In this respect, he is also the source of the Japan ideal portrayed in the poems of Mehmet Akif Ersoy. Throughout his global travels at various times, Abdurreshid Ibrahim observed people of different faiths and emphasized that the first step in conveying Islam to others is to understand their language and religion well. In doing so, he highlighted the necessity of the academic study of religions and developed a unique approach that underlined both its importance and methodology. In this context, while it is commonly accepted that the discipline of the history of religions originated in the modern West, considering Abdurreshid Ibrahim’s aforementioned works, it can be said that he was, like Ahmet Mithat Efendi (d. 1912), one of the pioneering figures in the Islamic world in this field during the same period.

ISBN:

9786255959461