NASS VE TARİH
Authors : Şevket Kotan
Pages : 205-218
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Publication Date : 2008-11-30
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :It can be rightly said that orientalism’ method of research on Islam has also been the method of Islamists in their relations to basic Islamic texts as a parallel situation of backwardness of Muslims in the field of science. This method, in fact an anti-method, is based on each researcher’s drawing a conclusion by reasoning on particular evidences, regardless the question if he/she is able to have a sufficient scientific background. How much para doxical it may seem, this new method, finally, has been the most common method of every modern Islamist movements ranging from the most chal lenging rationalist-textualist ones to historicist apologist onesKeywords : history, method, rationalist textualist, reasoning