@article{2018,title={The Quran Verses Used as Source of Religious Themed Violence: The Sample of Enfal Surah 8/39},abstractNode={The Qur'an contains principles that constitute the basic principles of Islamic Islam. These principles create the source of a universal theology in which the world and the hereafter presents happiness on the one hand, help to regulate interpersonal relationships and lay the groundwork of the formation and institutionalization of social order. However, the interpretation of the Quran verses today different from God’s desires can drag individuals and societies into religion-sourced chaotic consequences. In this context, Surah Al-Anfal is used by some people’s and groups’ attitude that disrupts the social order by using religious themed as a source of violence that instrumentalize sacred values to legitimize their own theologies by Al-Anfal 39. “And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere; but if they cease, verily Allah doth see all that they do.” This situation, which has arisen due to the separation of the verse from its original conditions and its historical-sociological context, is being tried to be legitimized by a static approach to religious arguments. In fact, with instrumentalization and commodification, legitimization is among the most important functions of modern times. Because, in today's world, the religious life guided by the global legitimacy patterns of social life is rapidly metamorphosed within popular cultural contents; On the other hand, in this variable cultural environment, forms of religious understanding lose their effectiveness and reality by moving away from their traditional structure. In this article, it is attempted to demonstrate, in the example of the 39th verse of Surah al-Anfal, how the verses of the Qur'an are instrumentalized and thus commoditized by interpretation in a manner that is subject to varying modal legitimacy. The Qur'an is tried to explain in terms of scientific and historical-sociological point of view, such as how the interpreted verses are understood and interpreted by the commentators in the approach to the religious texts by means of instrumentalizing violence, what is the meaning of the struggle expressed in the aftermath, and in what situations the war can be applied. In the conclusion, it is emphasized that peaceful steps should be taken without waiting in the name of the future of mankind in which people are trying to legitimize violence in the name of Islam, and included suggestions regarding the mentioned steps are made.},author={İhsan ÇAPCIOĞLU-- Mehmet AKIN},year={2018},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}