İbn Tufeyl’de Din Dili ve İdrak Mertebeleri
The Language of Religion and The Levels of Understanding in Ibn Tufail

Summary/Abstract: Throughout human history, the concept of religion has been of great importance among all societies and each community has lived within its own set of beliefs. The concepts of God-Universe-Human and their relations with each other have been among the subjects of both religion and philosophy. For this reason, religion and philosophy have sometimes been brought into conflict with each other, and sometimes it has been stated that these two sciences are in harmony with each other and that they support each other. In our study, Ibn Tufail’s Hayy bin Yaqzān is taken as the center and the language of religion and the levels of understanding used here are addressed. In addition, the relationship between religion and philosophy has been evaluated in the historical process and the possibility of a new language of religion has been the main subject of this paper. In this research, we discussed the possibility of a new religious language in the light of Hayy bin Yaqzān and emphasized the importance of it. Because we think that the language of conflict should be abandoned as a prerequisite for the harmony and unity between religion and philosophy, and a new reconciliatory religious language is necessary. For this reason, apart from the studies in the literature, we looked at the relationship between philosophy and religion from the perspective of Ibn Tufail and Hayy bin Yaqzān and grounded in a new language of religion by taking into account the levels of understanding. By this way, we aimed to make a small contribution to both the field of Islamic philosophy and other related fields. In this paper, we emphasize why the unity of philosophy and religion is important and we have tried to reveal the negative and dangerous aspects of using a confrontational language of religion. As a solution, the concepts of ‘language of religion’ and different human understanding used by our philosopher in his work are emphasized and it is stated that a new language of religion is important in terms of ensuring the harmony between philosophy and religion. In this study, first of all, Ibn Tufail’s Hayy bin Yaqzān is addressed in the context of the language of religion. Then, the basic sources, articles, doctoral and master’s theses published on the subject were reviewed. All these collected data were addressed and evaluated using qualitative research methods and technics. As a result; in the historical process, there have been those who talk about the compatibility of religion and philosophy as well as those who argue that both sciences can’t be side by side. Each person has a different level of understanding. For this reason, the development of a new language of religion will make a great contribution to the field of religion and philosophy, and will enable us to better address the world of meaning of every human being.

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