{"title":"Düzgün’s Case for a Religion of Freedom","authors":"Taraneh R. Wilkinson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441537.003.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes up the work of Ankara theologian and kalam scholar Şaban Ali Düzgün, treating his Muslim understanding of fitra, or primal human nature and how he uses this Islamic concept to redefine what it means to be primitive. From his understanding of primal human nature, the chapterreconstructs his theological anthropology—one defined by both Enlightenment values and classical Islamic understandings of the God-world relation. Through a holistic reconstruction of Düzgün’s theological anthropology, the analysis shows that his dialectical use of both Islamic and “Western” concepts not only allows him to cast authentic Islam as compatible with Western values of individual freedom. Further, Düzgün’s theological anthropology also allows him to actively defend individual agency and worth in the face of double-standards, be they religious or secular, or in the face of Western individualism gone to the extreme.","PeriodicalId":334436,"journal":{"name":"Dialectical Encounters","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dialectical Encounters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441537.003.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter takes up the work of Ankara theologian and kalam scholar Şaban Ali Düzgün, treating his Muslim understanding of fitra, or primal human nature and how he uses this Islamic concept to redefine what it means to be primitive. From his understanding of primal human nature, the chapterreconstructs his theological anthropology—one defined by both Enlightenment values and classical Islamic understandings of the God-world relation. Through a holistic reconstruction of Düzgün’s theological anthropology, the analysis shows that his dialectical use of both Islamic and “Western” concepts not only allows him to cast authentic Islam as compatible with Western values of individual freedom. Further, Düzgün’s theological anthropology also allows him to actively defend individual agency and worth in the face of double-standards, be they religious or secular, or in the face of Western individualism gone to the extreme.
本章介绍安卡拉神学家和学者Şaban Ali d zg n的工作,讨论他的穆斯林对fitra或原始人性的理解,以及他如何使用这个伊斯兰概念来重新定义原始的含义。本章从他对原始人性的理解出发,重构了他的神学人类学——一个由启蒙价值观和古典伊斯兰教对神与世界关系的理解共同定义的神学人类学。通过对德兹格恩神学人类学的整体重构,分析表明,他对伊斯兰和“西方”概念的辩证运用不仅使他能够将真正的伊斯兰塑造成与西方个人自由价值观相容的。此外,德兹格恩的神学人类学也使他在面对宗教或世俗双重标准,或面对西方走向极端的个人主义时,积极捍卫个人能动性和价值。