Cemîl Sıdkî ez-Zehâvî’nin el-Fecru’s-Sâdık Adlı Eseri Özelinde Vehhâbîlik Eleştirisi
Criticism of Wāhhabism in Jamīl Sidqī al-Zahāwī’s al-Fajr al-Sādiq

Summary/Abstract: Wāhhabism, which emerged in the mid-18th century, is a movement that draws attention with its reactivity in Islamic thought. The views of its founder, Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb, were built to deny the centuries-old religious understanding of the Muslim community, based on a bida‘-centered thought. In this direction, Wahhābism has transformed the elimination of institutions and structures that it regards as signs of disbelief into a structural character. This study examines the critical treatise on Wahhābism by the Iraqi poet Jamīl Sidqī al-Zahāwī (d. 1936), who was disturbed by its activities in Iraq. Zahāwī wrote al-Fajr al-Sādiq to reveal the historical origins of Wahhabism and criticise its political and religious activities, and tried to explain the unknown aspects of this religious movement. The work, in terms of its content, has examined the issues that occupy the agenda of Muslim society such as shirk (polytheism), bida‘ (heretical innovation), tawassul (request), and takfir (excommunication). The work, which is a refutation, draws attention as an important source in scholarly studies on Wahhā- bism in terms of its content. In this study, the theoretical and historical criticism put forward by Zahāwī will be tried to be revealed by using the textual analysis method. According to Zahāwī, Wahhabism is a movement instrumentalised for political rather than religious pur- poses. The sociological basis of this structure, which is based on Khārijite thought, is based on tribalism and contains reactionism against the other.

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