Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences

In formulating his understanding of Islamic history, thought and politics, the Turkish Muslim thinker Ahmet Davutoğlu adopts the German philosopher Edmund Husserl’s formulation of phenomenology – or, philosophy of consciousness. Both Husserl and Davutoğlu perceive a crisis in humanity and identify i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morrison, Scott
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/1/IJIT_Vol_5_June_2014_9_71-81.pdf

id	ukm-7231
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ukm-72312016-12-14T06:43:28Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/ Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences Morrison, Scott In formulating his understanding of Islamic history, thought and politics, the Turkish Muslim thinker Ahmet Davutoğlu adopts the German philosopher Edmund Husserl’s formulation of phenomenology – or, philosophy of consciousness. Both Husserl and Davutoğlu perceive a crisis in humanity and identify its causes in scientism and logical positivism, against which they develop their respective phenomenological alternatives. This article places in parallel Husserl’s stylised history of Western thought and Weltanschauung method with that of Davutoğlu’s Muslim worldview, in order to illuminate the latter’s putatively comprehensive interpretation of Islam, diagnosis of the ills of secularism, modernisation, and crisis of values he finds in Muslim societies; and his prescribed treatment for those ills: the privileging of ontology over epistemology, and the full unfolding of core theological concepts of revelation, monotheism, and prophecy. Davutoğlu seeks to reconcile tensions and disputes within Islamic intellectual traditions concerning the nature of God and God’s attributes, and the tension between mysticism and rationalism, and the historical and the atemporal. In summary, Davutoğlu’s intervention in Islamic traditions is interesting in the effort it makes to appropriate elements of both Husserl and GWF Hegel for the purpose of reconciling a phenomenological reading of Islam with established Islamic authorities and commitments. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/1/IJIT_Vol_5_June_2014_9_71-81.pdf Morrison, Scott (2014) Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences. International Journal of Islamic Thought ( IJIT ), 5 . pp. 71-81. ISSN 2232-1314 http://www.ukm.my/ijit/index.html
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia
building	UKM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
description	In formulating his understanding of Islamic history, thought and politics, the Turkish Muslim thinker Ahmet Davutoğlu adopts the German philosopher Edmund Husserl’s formulation of phenomenology – or, philosophy of consciousness. Both Husserl and Davutoğlu perceive a crisis in humanity and identify its causes in scientism and logical positivism, against which they develop their respective phenomenological alternatives. This article places in parallel Husserl’s stylised history of Western thought and Weltanschauung method with that of Davutoğlu’s Muslim worldview, in order to illuminate the latter’s putatively comprehensive interpretation of Islam, diagnosis of the ills of secularism, modernisation, and crisis of values he finds in Muslim societies; and his prescribed treatment for those ills: the privileging of ontology over epistemology, and the full unfolding of core theological concepts of revelation, monotheism, and prophecy. Davutoğlu seeks to reconcile tensions and disputes within Islamic intellectual traditions concerning the nature of God and God’s attributes, and the tension between mysticism and rationalism, and the historical and the atemporal. In summary, Davutoğlu’s intervention in Islamic traditions is interesting in the effort it makes to appropriate elements of both Husserl and GWF Hegel for the purpose of reconciling a phenomenological reading of Islam with established Islamic authorities and commitments.
format	Article
author	Morrison, Scott
spellingShingle	Morrison, Scott Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences
author_facet	Morrison, Scott
author_sort	Morrison, Scott
title	Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences
title_short	Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences
title_full	Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences
title_fullStr	Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences
title_full_unstemmed	Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences
title_sort	muslim selbstverständnis: ahmet davutoğlu answers husserl’s crisis of european sciences
publisher	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2014
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7231/1/IJIT_Vol_5_June_2014_9_71-81.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T19:49:07Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T19:49:07Z
_version_	1777406099935199232

Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s crisis of European sciences

Similar Items