The Effect Of The Mâturidi’s Kalam System On The Religious Contemplation World


Imam Mâturîdi was born in the city of Samarkand in the region of Ma warâ’ al-nahr which is the center of many religious and cultural civilizations. The period that he had lived was a time of great changes and developments for the Islamic world. It is a period in which there were many debates about faith, philosophy and politics. In this period, the objections came not only from within the Islamic religion but from the outside, and it was necessary to deal with this. In such a period, the importance of the Maturidi was once again revealed. Because his contribution to our world of religious contemplation not only remained valid for that period. The system that he created continues to live until today. In addition, he refuted the denialist movements and prepared answers for them. Maturidi’s system of kalam is rational Imam Maturidi has created a new kalam dicipline by carrying the knowledge that existed before him to a much more advanced level. The intellectual, transplantation and semantic evaluations, which can be counted especially from the methods he uses, are very important in the existence of kalam as a science. He gave great importance specially to reason and deduction in the theoretical problems of kalam. In addition, in his works in which he expresses his theoretical views on kalam, he makes rational grounds in the fields of knowledge, theology, prophecy, hereafter, and destiny. In this respect, it has the most effective role in the formation of the word of Ahl al-Sunnah. In this article, while the methods and systematics of Maturidi will be emphasized, its contribution to our world of religious thought will be also put forward. In thia study, it will be tried to reveal the influence of Maturidi kalam systematics on the theory of reason and revelation.


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Maturidi, Kalam System, Religious Contemplation, Theory of reason, revelation

Author : Lütfiye Gülay BİLGİN
Number of pages: 147-156
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.39387
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Turkish Studies-Comparative Religious Studies
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