Dicle İlahiyat Dergisi

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In this study, the work of Maḥmud Moḥammad Shākir, one of the important researchers of Egypt, named Risāle fi't-tarîki ilā thekāfetinā (Message on the Way to Our Culture) has been evaluated. Shākir struggled with the strife that emerged in the Islamic world as a result of the projects carried out. According to him, in order to get rid of colonial hegemony, Muslims must get rid of their inferiority complex. In addition, according to him, Western research methods that do not reflect the richness of the Islamic tradition, as well as falsifying it, should be abandoned. In this context, in his work, he emphasized the research method that comes from the depths of the Islamic tradition and which he called the method of “tazawwuq”. At the same time, he focused on the emergence process of this method. In this study, attention was drawn to the issues that Shākir, who came to the forefront with his defense of Islamic civilization, based on historical data in his aforementioned work. The study focuses on the tazawwuq method, which is more compatible with the Islamic tradition, in contrast to the research methods adopted in the period when Shākir lived. As a matter of fact, thanks to this method, Shākir managed to reach the background of other issues covered in the work. In the study, the deep and meticulous work discipline that Shākir adopted as a principle to defend the tradition was also emphasized.