Mehmet Akif Ersoy as an İslamist and His perspective on the Islamism

2. Movements
Westernist Islamıst Turkist
Abdullah Cevdet Mehmed Akif Ziya Gökalp
Tevfik Fikret İzmirli İsmail Hakkı Mehmet Emin
Yurdakul
Celal Nuri Eşref Edip Yusuf Akçura

3. Subdivisions Of Islamısm
Traditionalist
/Anti-
modernist
Islahıst/İhya
/Ihsha/
moderate
Reformist/
modernist
Mustafa
Sabri
Mehmed
Akif
Şemseddin
Günaltay
Zahid el-
Kevseri
İzmirli İsmail
Hakkı
Hüseyin Atay
İsmail Kara Hayrettin
Karaman
Yaşar Nuri
Öztürk

4. 1)Mehmed Akif’s Islamism obsiously did take sides with
Abduh’s school.
2) Akif’s many translations of Abduh and his egyptian disciple
Farid Wadjdi, famous for his encyclopedia and commentary
of the Qur’an, show the influence of Abduh’s teachings.

5. • Eşref Edib bu konuda şöyle
der:“Üstadın tercüme
ettiği eserler onun fikrine
uygun olmak itibariyle
onlara ehemmiyet-i
mahsusa vererek
tercüme etmiştir. Zaten
fikrine uymayan eserleri
ne tercüme eder, ne de
okurdu. Bu itibarla
tercümeleri de onun
fikirleri demektir ”
• Ashraf Edip said that:
‘’Master had translated
works have been translated
by giving them importance.
Already he neither translate
nor read works that dont fit
with the his idea. Hence
translations are meant his
ideas’’

6. 3)The Sırat-ı Mustaqim
published many translations of
articles by well-knowfrom
Abduh, Farid Wajdi…
4)The Sırat-ı Mustaqim and ıts
successor Sebilürreshash
became the organ of islamic
ihya/insha/tejdid movements
and pan-islamism in the in
Ottoman empire
5) It had a wide circulation
among not Ottomans, but
also Turkic peoples outside of
Ottomans lands, especially in
the Russian Empire
Such as İbrahim Rashid
Musa Carullah Bigi
6) An important of part
translated work and
published journal articles are
the main article of the
magazine’s Urwetu al –wusqa

7. • According to Suat Mertoğlu number of Tranlations from
Abduh are 40-45 and there are from Farid wadjdi 12
artical in issue women
and Azmzâde Refik such as
“Kaza and Kader”
“Fezâil ve Rezâil”
“Emel ve Taleb-i Mecd”
“Hıristiyanlık ve Müslümanlık”
“Vahdet-i İslâmiye”
“Müslümanlıkta Esaslar -Sultân-”

8. Muslim Women

9. Thought about Jamalladin Afgani
-Two article in Sırat’ul
Mustaqim
- Defening Afghani attacked as
a wahhabi
- Slandering as Mülhid

10. Who was Manastırlı? He was one of the
reast ulema of the recent years. As Shaykh
Muhammad Abduh of Egytian land, Shaykh
Amin of Kurdistan, and Huseyn Jisr of Syria
are the wisest snd most famous ‘alims, so
was Manastırlı the most perfumed and the
wisest ‘alim in the region. (Akif, Ya
hasretten ba’de hasretin ale’l-mü’minin,
Sebilürreshad,9/225 )

11. Main Character of Manar School
1) Opposition to imperialism
2)Opposition to inovations/superstition
3) Return to the essence/sadr-ı islam/Salafi
4)Opening door of ijtihad
5)Pan-islamism