Özet:

The relationship between religion and power in the history of Europe is one of the main foundations of the modern state. The political views and experiences of early Muslims stand in contrast to this modern concept of state, thereby requiring a new concept of religion to reconcile the two. In the pre-modern era, religion and power seem to be inseparable from one another, if observed within the framework of Talal Asad’s interpretation of the modern concept of religion and Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s comments on the premodern Christianity. The formation of the modern state and the specific relation it produces between the governing and governed bodies reproduces a certain unity of religion and power through a new concept of religion. The state constitutes a modern sacred pantheon and appears to have a divine faculty with the structure and reflexes that sanctify its institutional existence.

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