TURSKO RAZUMIJEVANJE RELIGIJE: PONOVNO OTKRIVANJE MĀTURĪDĪJA U MODERNOJ TURSKOJ

Abstract

UDK 28-1

In this text, the author attempts to describe the revival and rediscovery of Māturīdī’s theology in modern Turkey, a movement that he refers to as “Turkish Neo-Māturīdism.” This movement has its roots in a number of important kalām debates, as well as theological and institutional developments in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. The modern Turkish theological interest in Māturīdī is one important strain of “Islamic modernism” among many examples in modern Turkey. Turkish Neo-Māturīdism is a broad movement across modern Turkish history that began in the search for a distinctively Turkish national Islamic heritage. As part of this search, Muslim theologians in Turkey identified Māturīdī as a key part of the Turkish heritage of Islam and Islamic thought. In the author’s view, this rediscovery of Māturīdī can be considered a part of the history of the Māturīdī school of thought in general, and it grows out from influential and persuasive interpretations of Māturīdī’s theological ideas.