İSLÂM VE DEMOKRASİ İLİŞKİSİNE MODERNİTE BAĞLAMINDA YENİDEN BAKIŞ
RE-EVALUATION OF İSLÂM AND DEMOCRACY RELATİON İN THE CONTEXT OF MODERNİTY

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between Islam and democracy has always been discussed, it has become one of the subjects that are at the centre of a very wide interest not only in terms of science but also ideologically. Approaching to the issue, highlighted / desired to be highlighted features of democracy, it showed differences depending on the exhibited characteristics of Islam, thus, a very abundant democracy-Islam relation literature has been formed with different implicit assessments. In this literature, besides valuable studies, due to the sensitivity of the issue and being very convenient to the ideological exploitation, undoubtedly, quite superficial and sloganic studies also occupied a considerable place. Comparisons were also made on these issues and it is outside the subject of this article. According to us, while scrutinising islam and democracy relation, democracy, mostly, only a form, reduced to a form of management, its relation to modernity owing to its existence in its present sense, more precisely the projection feature of modernity in the political sphere is neglected. This neglect seems to be the biggest handicap for putting healthy ground the speech about the İslam and democracyTherefore, in this article, we will try to make this indispensable connection between modernity-democracy a comparison between Islam and democracy.

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