ŞENTÜRK, Mustafa Bayburt Üniversitesi - İlahiyat Fakültesi, Turkey

Mûsâ Cârullah’s Thoughts on Education: in the Context of His Work “Târîhu’l-Kur’ân Ve’l-Mesâhıf”

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There is a dialectic relation between the con-cepts of the economic/political development or recession and the education which is generally described as obtaining desired behaviors to indivi-duals by their own will. In another words, educa-tion, at the beginning is the reason of development and recession and at the end it is result of them. According to this approach, since eighteenth cen-tury, education system has been pointed as the one of the most fundamental reasons of the declining of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) in private and Islamic Civilization at large; in the same time, education reforms were pointed as the primary remedy for the reconstruction. Mûsâ Cârullah (1875-1949) was one of the thinkers who lived in this era in which the global fluctuations occured and Islamic Civilization declared its defeat. Târîhu’l-Kur’ân ve’l-Mesâhıf is one of Cârullah’s books in which he explains his ideas about the education reforms. Our study aims to critically examine Carullah’s opinions in his work mentioned above.

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Mûsâ Cârullah Bigiyef , Education , Târîhu’l , Kur’ân ve’l , Mesâhıf.

Journal Of Turkish Research Institute

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