Özet:

Modernization, which is one of the important subjects of sociology and sociology of religion, has affected the way of life as well as led to some mental changes in the way of understanding and interpreting religion. As a result of this mentality change, the individual was defined as an “actor” in which his mind was exalted and the importance of his will emphasized, and as a requirement of this role, he aimed to reveal the modern interpretation of religion against traditional religious understandings. In the Tanzimat period, when the first modernization efforts were seen in all institutional areas in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire felt the need to renew its institutional structures by taking the science and technique of the West as a solution to the military failures, and this situation paved the way for modern culture to take a place in the Ottoman society. In the transmission of modern culture, education has undertaken an important function in terms of gaining both a new worldview and an individual attitude. In this article, it has been seen important how the Tanzimat period, which is historically accepted as the beginning of modernization in Turkey, had an impact on the individualization of religion. In this study, using the literature review method, the effort to search for the modern interpretation of Islam of the “Intellectual” segment, who has a modern consciousness and has a modern consciousness, has been discussed. As a result, the conservative segment, which adopted modern values during the Tanzimat period, subjected the traditional understanding of the basic principles of Islam such as belief and worship to various criticisms, and tried to put forward new forms of interpretation compatible with modern values instead of the rejected traditional understanding of religion. This attitude, which is considered as religious individualization, has revealed a type of intellectual called "New Conservative Intellectual".

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