An Overview of the Perception of “Mahdiship” in the Context of Social Theology: The Comparison between İzmirli İsmail Hakkı and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
Journal Title: Journal of the Human and Social Science Researches - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Mahdi is a conceptually common phenomenon in cultures and religions. It is a fact that this notion which we can also easily see in the Pre-Islamic beliefs intensifies particularly in the crisis periods. The reason why Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and İzmirli İsmail Hakkı are chosen in this paper as samples is their being contemporaneous, their having been lived in same time in the disastrous days when nearly all Muslim world was suffered from serious troubles in the late period of the Ottoman State, and their introducing in the matter of mahdiship completely contrary views. While İzmirli approaches this matter as to whether it is a religious value, Afghani deals with it as socio-political truth. In this paper, sources and admission of perception of mahdiship of a certain period is tried to introduce on the basis of these two scholars.
Authors and Affiliations
İsmail ŞIK| Doç. Dr.Ç. Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi ismailahmet@cu.edu.tr, Yusuf GÖKALP| Yrd. Doç. Dr.Ç. Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi ygokalp@cu.edu.tr
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