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Eyhülislâms, MUSTAFA SABRÏ Efendi (1869-1954): HIS LIFE, WORKS and INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS ONE OF THE LAST OTTOMAN ~EYHÜLisLÂMS, MUSTAFA SABRÏ EFENDi (1869-1954): HIS LIFE, WORKS AND INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS by Mehmet Kadri Karabela A the sis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, McGill University, Montreal in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Institute of Islamic Studies McGill University Montreal August 2003 Library and Bibliothèque et 1+1 Archives Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de l'édition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Canada Canada Your file Votre référence ISBN: 0-612-98452-4 Our file Notre référence ISBN: 0-612-98452-4 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non­ L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library permettant à la Bibliothèque et Archives and Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par télécommunication ou par l'Internet, prêter, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des thèses partout dans loan, distribute and sell th es es le monde, à des fins commerciales ou autres, worldwide, for commercial or non­ sur support microforme, papier, électronique commercial purposes, in microform, et/ou autres formats. paper, electronic and/or any other formats. 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While these forms may be included Bien que ces formulaires in the document page count, aient inclus dans la pagination, their removal does not represent il n'y aura aucun contenu manquant. any loss of content from the thesis. ••• Canada ABSTRACT Author: Mehmet Kadri Karabe1a Title: One of the Last Ottoman ~eyhülislâms, Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869-1954): His Life, Works and Intellectual Contributions Department: Institute ofIslamic Studies Degree: Master of Arts The aim of this work is to make sorne contributions towards understanding the stagnation of Islamic theology and the intellectual life of Muslims by concentrating on the life and works of Mustafa Sabri Efendi, one of the last Ottoman §eyhü/islâms (chief jurisconsult of the State and head of the Ottoman religious establishment). Sabri was a leading scholar and politically active figure of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Ottoman State, and was appointed §eyhü/islâm four times in the final years of the State. Due to his resistance to the Committee of Union and Progress and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, he lived half ofhis life in exile in various countries, and died in Egypt. The merit of Sabri's thought lies in its full reflection of influential theological and philosophical currents in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in its recognition of the crucial importance of ontological and epistemological problems for contemporary Islam. Sabri emphasized that the epistemic structure of Islamic thought had collapsed, meaning that the first task of the Muslim psyche would have to consist in learning how to conceptualize and to formulate systematically its own positions on what "being" is (ontology) and what "knowledge" is (epistemology) in terms intelligible to others. 11 RÉSUMÉ Auteur: Mehmet Kadri Karabe1a Titre: Mustafa Sabri Efendi, un des derniers §eyhü/islâms Ottoman (1869-1954): Sa vie, ses oeuvres et ses contributions intellectuelles. Département: Institut des Études Islamiques, Université McGill Diplôme: Maîtrise ès Arts Ce travail a pour but de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de la stagnation de la théologie islamique et de la vie intellectuelle des Musulmans, à travers l'étude de la vie et des œuvres de Mustafa Sabri Efendi, un des derniers §eyhü/islâms Ottoman (chef du conseil juridique de l'État et chargé de l'établissement religieux Ottoman). Sabri était un érudit de premier plan et une personne politiquement active dans l'État Ottoman à la fin du dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècle. Il fut nommé au poste de §eyhü/islâms à quatre reprises dans les dernières années de ce même État. En raison de sa résistance au Comité de l'Union et du Progrès ainsi qu'à Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, il passa la moitié de sa vie en exil dans plusieurs pays et mourut en Égypte. Le mérite de la pensée de Sabri est que celle-ci constitue un reflet complet des courants théologiques et philosophiques influents du dix-neuvième et du début du vingtième siècle, et qu'elle reconnaît l'importance cruciale des problèmes ontologiques et épistémologiques de l'Islam contemporaine. Sabri mit l'emphase sur le fait que la structure épistémique de la pensée musulmane s'était écroulée, ce qui signifiait que la première tâche du psyché musulman allait être d'apprendre comment conceptualiser et formuler systématiquement ses propres positions sur qu'est-ce que «L'être» (ontologie) et qu'est ce que « Le savoir» (épistémologie) en des termes intelligibles pour les autres. III ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 am indebted to the faculty and staff of the Institute of Islamic Studies whose interest, support and assistance made the research and writing of this thesis possible. My deepest gratitude however is to Professor of Islamic Theology and Thought Eric L. Ormsby, my thesis supervisor, for his constructive criticism and advice. It is also a pleasant dut y to acknowledge my indebtedness to the director of the Institute, Professor A. Üner Turgay, who gave me every facility and encouragement to prosecute this work. 1 am also grateful to Professor Wael Hallaq whose ideas on sorne points have been quite insightful. Thanks are also due to Salwa Ferahian Hanzmefendi and Wayne St. Thomas Beyefendi of the Islamic Studies Library and the staff of Inter Library Loans for their assistance in acquiring primary sources and providing facilities for this research. The libraries of a number of universities have also been of assistance for this research: Brown University, Comell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Ohio and University of Toronto. 1 should like to thank two professors, Ali Yardim and A. Bülent Baloglu of Dokuz Eylül University for their enthusiasm and making available sources from Turkey. 1 am obliged to Fahad Alhomoudi, BilaI Ba~ and Defne Karaosmanoglu who also supplied me with he1pful materials for this work. 1 give my warmest thank to Elizabeth Alexandrin, Selim Argun, Colleen Cummings, Halim Çah~, Faika Çelik, Charles Fugère, Hasher Majoka, Dr. Ahmet Seyhun, Carl S. el-Tobgui and Nadia Wardeh for their valuable comments at sorne stage in the preparation of this work. Last but by no means least, 1 owe a debt of gratitude to Steve Millier for having made the task easier in all the ways that a most patient editor cano IV ABBREVIATIONS Ef2 The Encyclopaedia ofIslam (new ed., Il vols. Leiden, 1960-) Esmâ Bagdath ismâ'il Pa~a, Hediyyet ül-Ârifin Esmâ ül-Müellifin ve Âsâr ül-Musannifin (2 vols.; Istanbul, 1951-1955) GAL Carl Brocke1man, Geschichte der arabishen Litteratur (2nd ed.; 2 vols.; Leiden, 1943-1949) islâm Türkiye Diyanet Vakfi islâm Ansiklopedisi (25 vols. to date; Istanbul, 1988-) Keif Katib Çelebi, Keif el-Zunûn (2 vols.; Istanbul, 1943) Koprülü Ramazan Se~en ve Arkada~lan, Koprülü Kütüphanesi Yazmalar Katalogu (3 vols.; Istanbul, 1986) al-Shaykh Mufral). Sulayman al-Qawsï, al-Shaykh Mu~.tafii $abiï wa­ mawqifuh min al-fikr al-wifid (Riyadh, 1997) Zeyl Bagdadh isma'il Pa~a, Zeylu Keifz'z Zunûn (2 vols.; Istanbul 1945-47) al-A 'lim Khayr al-clin Zirikli, al-A 'lim. Qimüs tarijim (8 vols.; Beirut, 1980) A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION The Arabic transliteration system of the Institute of Islamic Studies was employed for names, titles and phrases written in an exc1usively Arabic context. AIl Ottoman and Kazan Tatar in Arabic script and modem Turkish personal names and titles are given in the modem Turkish spelling or in their Ottoman Turkish form (e.g. Mustafa Sabri, not Mu~!afii ~abr1; Rahmet-i ilâhiye Burhanlan, not Rahmat-i Ilahiyya Bürhanlarï). Family names introduced in 1934 are given in parentheses for c1ear identification (e.g. Hüseyin Câhid (Yalçm) and Mehmet Akif (Ersoy). v TABLE OF CONTENTS Eng1ish Abstract. ............................................................................ .ii Réswné ........................................................................................ .iii Acknow1edgements ..........................................................................iv Abbreviations and A Note on Trans1iteration ...............................................v Table of Contents ............................................................................vi Introduction .................................................................................... 1 A. Into the Darkness: The Present Dilemma in Is1amic Intellectua1 History a. A Theoretica1 Question Mark b. Historica1 Reasons B. Objective ofthis
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