BİLİM-DİN ÇATIŞMASI TEZİNİN DOĞUŞU VE BİR İSLÂM SAVUNMASI: AHMET MİDHAT EFENDİ VE “NİZÂ-I İLM Ü DÎN” ADLI ESERİ
THE RISING OF SCIENCE-RELIGION CONFLICT THESIS AND A DEFENCE OF ISLAM: AHMET MİDHAT EFENDİ AND HIS WORK: “NİZÂ-I İLM Ü DÎN”

Summary/Abstract: In the nineteenth century, in the face of weakening religious institutions, materialist and positivist thoughts had risen in Europe. Starting in the second half of the century, these ideas affected the Ottoman intellectuals of the Tanzimat period. In a time which saw a process of disintegration, refutations were written against those who claimed that Islam was the reason for the recession of Muslim countries. The last quarter of the century was dominated by Ahmet Midhat’s struggle of idea against missions and materialism. He translated John William Draper’s 1874 attack on the Catholic Church, History Of The Conflict Between Religion and Science into Ottoman Turkish. In his critical edition, He criticized some of Draper’s mistakes concerning Islamic thought and the Prophet of Islam. His primary objective in this work was to protect the youth of the Ottoman Empire from materialism.

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