Conceptualiser le mysticisme dans une perspective académique : la constitution d’une histoire générale du mysticisme chez Mehmet Ali Ayni (1868-1945)
This article focuses on a moment of the (re)intellectual and academic construction of Sufism as an object in Turkey through a particular historicization of the tasavvuf, a term referring to the Islamic mystical tradition or Sufism. To do this we propose to focus on the book Tasavvuf tarihi, a work w...
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| Language: | English |
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Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient
2017-12-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Turkish Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/5451 |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on a moment of the (re)intellectual and academic construction of Sufism as an object in Turkey through a particular historicization of the tasavvuf, a term referring to the Islamic mystical tradition or Sufism. To do this we propose to focus on the book Tasavvuf tarihi, a work which forms at the time of its publication the basis of a teaching of the republican faculty of theology opened in 1924. The scholar Mehmet Ali Ayni (1868-1943), is building its object of study according to an epistemic delimitation of relocating the “mystic” (tasavvuf) historically and conceptually, associating, like the scholarly Western orientalism that he exploits, mystics of various traditions.His enterprise responds to several dynamics: the construction of university chairs and academic knowledge, the historicization and objectification of religion, and the nationalization of religious references. Thus the teaching of history of mysticism occurs within the framework of historicizing traditional Islamic knowledge, and collaborates on the academic heritage of Sufism during a period that sees the closure and ban of tekkes and confraternities, which intervene very soon after the first publication of this book. This teaching also matches a modification of the scientific approaches of the new faculty of theology, whose prerogatives and missions were different from those of classical medrese before the reform of 1914. It is characterized epistemologically by a mystical-philosophical indiscernability which is incarnated in writings on the tasavvuf within the faculty of theology. We analyze this book-support of an emblematic teaching of the republican faculty of theology, as the product and the agent of academization, a mediatization producing particular forms of diffusion, but also inducing a new referentiality of the Sufi message. |
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| ISSN: | 1773-0546 |