Yeni Sünnet Tanımları Bağlamında Sünnet-Dindarlık İlişkisi Üzerine Bazı Mülâhazalar

Authors : Şemsettin Kiriş

Pages : 7-41

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Publication Date : 2017-12-30

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The fact that modernization threatened applicability and sustainability of Islamic piety made it necessary to rethink Sunnah. And the necessity of rethinking Sunnah also gave rise to new definitions of Sunnah. And trying to answer the question of why it is necessary to rethink Sunnah led us to reconsider piety because the relationship between Sunnah and piety is a normal and structural relationship. The nature of piety and the nature of Sunnah overlap. This is why it would not be wrong to see the call for the ‘revival of Sunnah’ in the last century among Muslims as a manifestation of the search for piety. Also, assessing Sunnah in this context to redefine it will end the confusion about this matter. Furthermore, the clarification of the concepts will also help to put piety into practice in the modern era because conceptual confusions leads to inconsistencies in one’s behaviors. This article tackles modern definitions of Sunnah and piety and also it assesses the related concepts of Kitab, Sunnah and Hikmah. As a result, the article argues that there is not an obstacle to understanding and defining Sunnah as a form of piety.
Keywords : Dindarlık, Sekülerlik, Kitâbullâh, Hikmet, Sünnet