A Comparative Analysis on the Religious Understanding of the Imams of Madrasah Origin with Imams Graduated from the Faculty of Divinity in the Context of the Qur'an and the Sunnah: A Case of Diyarbakir
KUR’AN VE SÜNNET BAĞLAMINDA MEDRESE KÖKENLİ İMAMLAR İLE İLAHİYAT FAKÜLTESİ MEZUNU İMAMLARIN DİN ANLAYIŞLARININ KARŞILAŞTIRMALI ANALİZİ: DİYARBAKIR ÖRNEĞİ

Author : -Abdüssamet KAYA - Niyazi AKYÜZ
Number of pages : 1-7

Abstract

While madrasahs are the traditional religious education, teology faculties are the modern official higher religious education institutions. Those who graduate from these institutions take part in religious services and have an influence on religious understanding in society at various levels. Madrasahs are generally considered to be conservative centers of religious tradition. The faculties of Divinity are often regarded as institutions that approach critically to the tradition and defend modern religious understandings. The comparison of religious understandings of official imams as the religious authorities of madrasah or graduated from the faculty of divinity, will give insight into the validity of social perceptions about madrasah and faculty of Divinity religious understandings. The main result of this research is that, it has been understood that the general rhetoric about imams of madrasah origin as pure traditionalists and imams who graduated from the faculty of divinity as having a modernist understanding of religion does not correspond to a sociological reality.

Keywords

Madrasah, The Faculty of Teology, Religious understanding, Qur’an, Sunnah.

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