The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition
Susan Gunasti, "The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition "
English | ISBN: 1138336920 | 2019 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1138336920 | 2019 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur’an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey.
The work explores the relationship between Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary and the intellectual trends of the period, including the impact of materialism, the sciences, notions of civilizational progress, and philosophy. In doing so, this study emphasizes the "local" aspect of the Qur’an commentary, through a sustained focus on the Istanbul context in which it was written. This work demonstrates that Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary is a product of and reaction to the religious, intellectual, political, and social trends of the period. This work, in considering all the factors that led to the commissioning of Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary, also contributes to our understanding of the history of Islam in early to mid-twentieth-century Turkey.
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