Abstract:

Religious-government relations have been discussed differently in each period and have led to different problems again. The desire to regulate the areas of the world by strong religions in the field of law has been assessed in a way that threatens the dominance of the worldly powers. In the West, this struggle concentrated between the Church (Ruhban class) and the state (worldly power) seems to result in the conception and practice of secularity and the allocation of the worldly power to the state. However, this struggle of power is everywhere, sometimes silent, sometimes noisy, but continues anyway. In fact, the influence of the Gospels on power in the United States, the claim to regulate American politics, is a major topic of debate on the agenda. Again, from the establishment of the Republic of Turkey to the present day, the religious-government relations have always been discussed in the context of the Presidency of the Dianet Affairs, the issue of the headquarters and the mandatory religious lessons. This study aims to approach such a long-term and framework topic from the point of view of Politism, which holds an important place in the Turkish-Islamic civilization, and to reveal the understanding of the period's religious-state relationship from the point of view of Nizamü'l-Mülk in the context of the source of power.