Lifelong Learners

                                                                                   Photo By: Met Museum                                            Before going into the details of the subject, it is very important to focus on the concept of "civilization" to better understand the subject. The word civilization is derived from the Arabic root "m-d-n", which means "settling and residing somewhere" and means "urbanism, sedentary life, living well and prosperous". This concept, which started to be used in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire, corresponds to the term "civilization" in Western thought. To express the concept of civilization in Turkish, the word “civili...

In the last centuries, the Muslim world has been witnessing one of the biggest destruction in its history. Islamic countries have been occupied by western ideas both spiritually and materially. By the way, these countries lost their powers politically, economically, and socially. Unfortunately, at this time there is not an Islamic country -or rather countries that have the Muslim public- who has the right to speak in the global world nearly in all areas. The current structure of Islamic countries reveals us demanding a new solution which is explained in the book; titled Islamization of Knowledge. This book emphasizes the recent main problems of Ummah from several angels and explains possible solutions as a structure that is shaped in the authors' mentality. The author says there are some stages to deal with this problem and there are three main steps to save the Ummah from the present situation. Firstly, after recognizing the problem as said above, all Muslim students must be ...

As we know, all sciences are good for everybody and it must be objective to create a common knowledge legacy of humanity. Therewith, objectivity is one of the most important principles of science. ' Scientific objectivity expresses the idea that the claims, methods, and results of science are not, or should not be influenced by particular perspectives, value commitments, community bias or personal interests, to name a few relevant factors' [1] . But now or before, can we say this statement is valid for anthropology or all of the social sciences which are based on western ideology? Anthropology with its other name -the study of men- as a general definition helps us to understand ourselves through understanding other cultures.   In western ideology, it is claimed that societies follow the social development stages in which western people are at the top of it. It means the western people are an example of human perfection. Undoubtedly, this theory was inspired by Dar...

Throughout history, human beings have tended to question the origin of themselves. He has felt the need to learn about his origin, behavior patterns and structure of culture that he was born inside. Initially, the human race tried to remove his curiosity based on information about the events and people told in myths, and epics. Later, through Europe's geographical discoveries and colonial activities was found an opportunity to get to know non-western societies and cultures. The first anthropological activities are based on the notes of the explorers, the colonial commanders and the travelers, and the diaries reflecting their impressions on these regions. However, it has been revealed that this information and impressions are inadequate, partial and generalist. The desire of researchers to reach more descriptive, valid and reliable information about human, society, nature and culture relations has, in time, paved the way for the emergence of anthropology by digging more pr...