The Department of Islamic Philosophy is one of the two departments of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences in Faculty of Islamic Sciences. Our department is composed of Islamic Philosophy, Logic and Islamic Ethics.
Islamic Philosophy, a resistance from the 9th century, is a scientific discipline that investigates and prepares the philosophy of collecting Muslim scholars and thinkers through Greek and Hellenistic philosophy and translations of science and property, and developing them through their own private efforts. Islamic Philosophy has many representatives such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, Gazzali, Averroes, Suhreverdi, Tusi and Molla Sadra. Avicenna constitutes an important turning point in the Islamic Philosophy, and his philosophical system has deeply influenced the intellectual work of the theologians and the sufi thinkers as well as the philosophical studies of the later period philosophers. There are two mainstreams of Islamic philosophy in the form of Illumination, the founders of Peripatetics and Suhreverdi, which espoused the presence of Avicenna in the tradition, but there are also other movements such as Hikmet-i Mütealiye built in the following centuries considering these two currents. The main subjects of Islamic philosophy are existence and knowledge and have fundamental problems such as nature, possibility, necessity and causality. Besides these, practical philosophical studies such as moral and political philosophy are evaluated within the scope of this philosophy.
In Logic, classical logic researches and educational activities are carried out. Probability, the five universals, the categories, the propositions, the forms of istidlal, the analogy and the five arts are among the main subjects of the logic department. Within the scope of Logic Department, the works of great logicists such as al-Farabi, Avicenna, Ebheri and Katibi are being considered and problems are examined in a problematic way.
In Islamic Ethics, there is ethics of morality based on psychology developed by Muslim philosophers as well as ethics of homework based on the literature created by contemporary thinkers, as well as religious ethics based on Qur'an and sunnah. Good, virtue, obligation, responsibility, sanction, value and happiness are some of the key concepts of moral thinking. In particular, the moral works of philosophers such as al-Farabi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Ibn Miskeveyh, Tusi, Devvani and Kinalizade are the basic literatures of this science.
In our faculty, we teach Islamic Philosophy, Logic, History of Philosophy, Islamic Moral Principles and Philosophy and Methodology in Islamic Science by the members of the Department of Our Distinguished Divers. Our Department of Dentistry teaches Master and Ph.D. with the Department of Religious Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences, depending on the Institute of Social Sciences. The Department of Islamic Philosophy considers the correct use of the mind in the demonstration method and the correct understanding of the Qur'an and sunnah in accordance with their purposes in specific contexts. The main aim of the department is to provide the students with the ability to think, analyze, interrogate, conduct objective research, and demonstrate an understanding of the ideas before judging them.
Members of Department
Prof. Nuri ADIGÜZEL (Vice Dean)
Prof. Murat DEMİRKOL (Head of Department of Islamic Philosophy) (Vice head of Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences)
Researc Assist. Hacer ERGİN ÖZKAN
Research Assist. Bilge Sever KIYAK