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- Title
Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen’in Büyük İslam İlmihali’nde Toplumsal Cinsiyet.
- Authors
Turan, Esra Aslan
- Abstract
İlmihals, also catechisms, are essential works shaping piety and religion in Turkey, which are written to teach the fundamentals of Islam on certain subjects namely faith, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, zakat and morals. This is closely related to the fact that catechisms often comply with cultural structures and conceptions. In this context, it can be claimed that social significances of womanhood and manhood are strongly reflected in catechism-based common religious beliefs. According to these conceptions, while women are attributed to undertake home and child care-related roles, men are expected to work outside, be the bread-winner for the family, and provide security. Recognitions of these roles and expectations have had an impact on gender-based evaluations in religious literature; religious texts shaped based on cultural codes have often justified traditional norms of womanhood and manhood, and so become the dominant instruments reinforcing those norms. The triggering idea behind this study is that catechisms in Turkey are thought to be very important to reveal how religion is a determinant in the permanence of the present gender conceptions. Therefore, in this study, it was examined how being a male and a female had been handled and discussed in the fatwas in the Great Catechism of Islam by Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen, which could be considered one of the founding texts in terms of piousness of Turkish society; the entire text was reviewed. The result of the study revealed that traditional standards of judgment considering women inferior to men and defining them as someone who lacked power, willpower, governance, and articulation has also structured the religious judgments and verdicts in the Great Catechism of Islam.
- Publication
KADEM Journal of Women's Studies, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
2149-4878
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21798/kadem.2023.135