1. Aliya İzzetbegoviç’in “Din-Ahlak” Fenomenlerine Ontolojik Yaklaşımı.
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TOMAN, Hasan
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Alija Izetbegović (1925-2003) is one of the important figure, inscribed into history as a leader of Bosnian Muslims, an exemplary statesman and an intellectual of both his own country and the other Islamic world. Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Izetbegović lived, is a country in the Balkan geography, the Ottoman state left in the middle of Europe. This geography and its people were intimidated and were forced to remove from their core values during and after the Second World War, as communism became a dominant ideological and political regime in the region. In this process, Izetbegović is considered as a highbrow and an activist trying to keep the Bosnians alive in the society with dynamics of Islamic civilization, fought hard to prevent social corruption, and even paid the price for his actions both materially and spiritually. He took the lead in the struggle against the political and social problems the Bosnian, the Balkan people faced, and tried to struggle by democratic means through the Young Muslims Movement (Mladi Muslim) he founded with his friends. He started his organizational attempts at the age of 16. While continuing his education as a law student and practicing as a lawyer, he wasn’t indifferent to social problems; therefore, he was in constant action. Alija's organizational aspect was not limited to the Mladi Muslim, in addition, he founded the Democratic Action Party when she was 65 years old (1990) and was elected the first President of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first election in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the seven members of the Yugoslav Federation. Despite known for his political identity, Izetbegović is also a philosopher, activist, sociologist, writer with his ideas on many issues. With his strong and personable stance and personality, he became a model for all lifestyles and is known as an exemplary personality among Muslims of the world, especially with his Islamic religious understanding, his ideas on political sociology, sociology of religion and society. To leave a message to the world with his intellectual and social works, with his ideas about the existence of an individual and society, Izetbegović made his objections to the wrong models of religion and social issues in Islamic geographies. It is seen that İzzetbeovic touches on these mistakes from different aspects and offers alternatives and deals with social relations and values from an Islamic point of view. His views on social life are theologically based, puts the concept of 'morality' at the center of his philosophy of life. By presenting views on the indistinguishable relationship between religion and morality, he considers the phenomena of religion and 'morality' ontologically and sees these two phenomena as inseparable parts. Contrary to some scientists considering the phenomena of morality and religion as different phenomena and make definitions accordingly, Izetbegovićopposes the interpretation of these two concepts as separate phenomena and sees one as an equal part of the other. Through document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, Alija Izetbegović's books such as Islam Between East and West, Problems of Islamic Rebirth, Islamic Declaration, My Witness to History, My Escape to Freedom and other sources on the subject have been examined, and his determinations on the relationship between religion and morality are discussed in this article. Limiting his views based on Islamic belief in the axis of the Qur'an, Izetbegović makes definitions for religion and morals and tries to prove the inseparability of both notions so, he considers religion and morality as a whole. Therefore, in his unique point of view, he alleges that a moral understanding that is not based on religion is not suitable for human nature. Based on the concepts of 'believers and those who do righteous deeds', which are frequently mentioned together in the Qur'an, it is seen that he puts emphasis on the fact that these two concepts (religion and morals) cannot be considered as independent concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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