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İslam ve Bilim: İkinci Bir İslami Altın Çağ İnşası İçin Din ve Bilimin Entegrasyonu

Year 2021, Issue: 12, 3 - 25, 23.12.2021

Abstract

Müslüman ülkelerin bilimde yüzyıllardan beri geri kaldığı bilinmektedir. Bugün tüm İslam ülkeleri Batı’yı yakalamak için çok yoğun bir bilimsel çaba içine girmişlerdir. Peki Batı’yı yakalamamıza ne kadar bir süre kaldı? İşte bu sorunun cevabını bulmak için bu çalışmada 2016-2020 yılları arasında öncü İslam ülkelerinin bilimsel üretkenliği Batı ülkeleri ile karşılaştırıldı. Ayrıca dinin bilimsel üretkenliği engelleyip engellemediğini değerlendirmek için orta üst ve orta alt gelir grubundaki Hıristiyan, Müslüman, Budist ve Hindu ülkeler arasında karşılaştırmalar yapıldı. Öncü Müslüman ülkelerin onca ilerlemeye rağmen Batı’dan hala çok geride olduğu, bu şekilde devam ederlerse Batı’yı hiçbir zaman yakalayamayacakları gösterildi. Başta İslam olmak üzere dinlerin hiçbirisinin bilimsel üretkenlik için özel bir engel teşkil etmediği ortaya kondu. Bu sonuçlar İslam ülkelerinin bilimsel üretkenlikte çok ciddi artışlar yaptığı ve yakında Batı’yı yakalayacakları algısının bir yanılgı olduğunu göstermektedir. Eğer Müslümanlar bilim ve teknolojide Batı’yı yakalamak istiyorlarsa geçmişte yaptıkları gibi bir altın çağ inşa etmeliler. İslami Altın Çağda alimler din ve fen bilimlerini birlikte icra etmekteydiler. Bugün yapılması gereken geçmişten ilham alarak din ve bilimin entegre edildiği bir üniversite modelini hayata geçirmektir.

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Islam and Science: Integration of Religion and Science to Build a Second Islamic Golden Age

Year 2021, Issue: 12, 3 - 25, 23.12.2021

Abstract

Today, all Islamic countries are undertaking intense scientific efforts to catch up with the West. So how long until we catch up with the West? The scientific productivity of leading Islamic countries was compared with Western countries in 2016-2020. Comparisons were also made between upper-middle and lower-middle-income Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu countries. It was shown that the leading Muslim countries are still far behind the West despite all their progress and that they will never be able to catch up with the West if they continue in this way. It has been demonstrated that none of the religions, especially Islam, pose a particular obstacle to scientific productivity. These results show that the perception that Islamic countries significantly increased their scientific productivity and will soon catch up with the West is a fallacy. If Muslims want to catch up with the West in science and technology, they must create a golden age as they have done in the past. In the Islamic Golden Age, scholars used to practice religion and science in an integrated manner. What needs to be done today is to implement a university model in which religion and science are integrated with inspiration from the past.

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  • Aroeira, R. I., & ARB Castanho, M. (2020). Can citation metrics predict the true impact of scientific papers? The FEBS journal, 287(12), 2440-2448.
  • Aşlamacı, İ. (2014). Pakistan Medreselerine Bir Model Olarak İmam-Hatip Okulları. Değerler Eğitimi Merkezi.
  • Aşlamacı, İ., & Kaymakcan, R. (2017). A model for Islamic education from Turkey: The Imam-Hatip schools. British Journal of Religious Education, 39(3), 279-292.
  • Chaney, E. (2016). Religion and the rise and fall of Islamic science. Work. Pap., Dep. Econ., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA.
  • Cheong, L. Y. (2015). A New Approach to Incorporating IBSE/STEM in School Curriculum in Arab Countries (s. 88).
  • Crabtree, S. (2010). Religiosity highest in world’s poorest nations.
  • Dallal, A. (2010). Islam, science, and the challenge of history. Yale University Press.
  • DataBank | The World Bank. (n.d.). Geliş tarihi 25 Ağustos 2021, gönderen https://databank.worldbank.org/home.aspx
  • El Rassi, R., Meho, L. I., Nahlawi, A., Salameh, J. S., Bazarbachi, A., & Akl, E. A. (2018). Medical research productivity in the Arab countries: 2007-2016 bibliometric analysis. Journal of global health, 8(2).
  • Guessoum, N., & Osama, A. (2015). Institutions: Revive universities of the Muslim world. Nature News, 526(7575), 634.
  • Gutas, D. (2012). Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early’Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.). Routledge. Hamid, T. (2015). Science at the Universities of the Muslim World. London and Islamabad.
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  • Lapidus, I. M. (2002). A history of Islamic societies. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lombard, M. (1975). The golden age of Islam. North-Holland Publ.
  • Mez, A. (2000). Onuncu Yüzyılda İslâm Medeniyeti. Çev. Salih Şaban. İstanbul: İnsan Yay.
  • Mimouni, J. (2015). Should Religion Be Kept Out of the Science Classroom? Science at the Universities of the Muslim World, 83.
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  • Rehman, J. (2015). The Dire State of Science in the Muslim World.
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  • Sezgin, F. (2016). Tanınmayan büyük çağ: İslam bilim ve teknoloji tarihi’nden. Timaş.
  • SJR : Scientific Journal Rankings. (n.d.). Geliş tarihi 25 Ağustos 2021, gönderen https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php
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  • The World Factbook—The World Factbook. (n.d.). Geliş tarihi 25 Ağustos 2021, gönderen https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
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  • Vahide, S. (2012). Islam in modern Turkey: An intellectual biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Suny Press.
  • World University Rankings. (2020). Times Higher Education (THE). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Refereed Articles
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Süleyman Oktar 0000-0003-0151-5981

Publication Date December 23, 2021
Submission Date October 21, 2021
Acceptance Date November 26, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Issue: 12

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APA Oktar, S. (2021). Islam and Science: Integration of Religion and Science to Build a Second Islamic Golden Age. Katre International Human Studies Journal(12), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.53427/katre.1012996

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