Guardian of tradition and agent of change: Rethinking Said Halim Pasha on the centenary of his martyrdom
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Abstract
In order to understand what Said Halim Pasha and the heritage he represented correspond to, it is necessary to explicate the search for a new order and the avenues this search occurred in in the second half of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th centuries. Because he was both a party to these discussions as foreign minister and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman State, and one of the leading thinkers of the idea of Islamic renewal, which was one of the most significant branches of these discussions. At the time the Pasha was born Muslims were debating whether their conceptions, methods and scientific disciplines were adequate for meeting the needs of the new world they faced. The fact that the Pasha published a collection of his treatises under the title Buhranlarımız (Our Crises) indicates that he perceived the issue at hand as a "crisis". At a time when there emerged diverging evaluations of the historical experience of Islam and Muslims, the Pasha insisted that a solution could be found on the basis of Islam and the historical experience of his own society. Though, his approach did not evolve into traditionalist introversion. The value he attributed to the concept of renewal, however, did not result in adopting a Westernizing line either. For this reason, we can summarize Said Halim Pasha's stance as being at the same time both “a guardian of tradition and an agent of change”. After analyzing the causes of the “crisis” in detail, the Pasha proposes Islamization as the solution. According to him, Islamization should rise on a grounded faith that is supported by coherent knowledge. Therefore, Islamization requires understanding the existence in accordance with its own nature. This article focuses on understanding the thought of Said Halim Pasha in its context.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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