Hadiste Metin Tenkidi Faaliyetlerinin Medyaya Yansımaları: Mısır Örneği

Abstract

Some Muslim intellectuals living in Egypt in the 19th century, thinking that the Islamic world was behind the times in the face of the challenges of Western thought, started to seek remedies to get rid of this situation and as a result of these searches, reform and renewal movements were born. Among the suggestions put forward to get rid of the current bad situation, the improvement of religious sciences took place and naturally the issues related to Sunnah came to the fore. In the Egyptian media, the issues of circumcision and text criticism have come to the fore intensively. In particular, the criticism of some narrative texts over visual and written media by the rational approach has caused this issue to come to the fore more frequently. However, the fact that reformist and rational approaches brought this issue to the agenda through various media has attracted the reaction of religious circles. Although the traditional structure of the Azhar ulama and the official supervisory role of Azhar prevented this issue from being pushed to the extreme, it also prevented the problems from being addressed and producing moderate solutions. Because of this conservative attitude, private television channels turned this into an opportunity and accelerated their confusing and polemical broadcasts about circumcision issues.The subject of text criticism which caused serious debates in Egypt, paved the way for the emergence of different approaches such as reformist, traditional and Kur’aniyyun. The reformist approach argues that text criticism which is also seen in the tradition, should be prioritized in the evaluation of the narrations. The traditionalist approach opposes this idea, arguing that text criticism was done properly in the past. The Kur’aniyyun approach on the other hand, rejected the Sunnah altogether and resorted to text criticism only to prove their claims. The subject was brought to the media and caused serious discussions in written, visual and digital media. Both those who defended the text criticism and those who opposed it tried to prove their thesis through the press, media and scientific organizations.