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• Aydeniz, Husnu

• Review ArticleYalnız künye2015/r/ebyu/18188
  Religion-Politics Relationship on The Basis of The Conflict Between Tradition and Modernity: A Critical Review on Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Views

  Aydeniz, Husnu

  There is a close and a complex relationship between religion and politics which are of the most effective factors in directing social life. There have been different approaches about how this relationship should be through the historical process The article has noted the approach proposed by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the most eminent Muslim philosophers of the recent time, for religion-politics relationship on the basis of the Traditionalism is noteworthy. He believed that the change in religion-politics relationship brought about by modernism which is the most effective paradigm of the age could not provide the expected contribution in terms of humanity and the world. Therefore, according to him, it is clear that there is a need for a search of bias-free ideas for the reconsideration of this relationship on more realistic and sound grounds. In this article, it is pointed out that Nasr, while subjecting the Western thought to a critical analysis on one side, emphasizes the problematic areas of the theories of some modern Muslim philosophers about this relation on the other. Furthermore, it is determined some problematic sides in his views about critics of modernism and democracy and in his some approaches about freedom and uncertainty in the content of tradition.

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