ULUM Journal of Religious Inquiries 1/1 (July 2018)
Journal Title: ULUM - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
ULUM is an new academic refereed journal dedicated to publishing articles, essays, translations, symposium reviews, and book reviews primarily within the fields of Religious and Islamic Studies including Arts and Humanities, Religion, Islamic Studies as well as Social and Behavioral Sciences, Theology and Ethics. The objective of the journal is to provide a forum for the scholars of Study of Religion(s) and Islamic Studies from Turkey and all over the world through which they can share and disseminate their research results and findings. This is especially important within the context of Turkish academy as the ULUM is the second in its kind publishing in English and thus providing a channel of communication with international audience for scholars who based in Turkey. ULUM aims to contribute to the scholarship by offering an effective venue for constructive critique and creative thinking in all aspects of Religious and Islamic Studies. ULUM is published twice a year in July and December and adopts double-blind peer-review process. There are at least two reviewers for the total number of articles in each issue. In addition, all articles are checked by means of a software program in order to confirm that they are unpublished and avoid plagiarism. ULUM accepts paper submission from researchers with only doctoral degrees in research articles and book review. ULUM requires writers to use the Isnad Citation Style: www.isnadsistemi.org We are delighted to offer you high-quality original reasearch papers in various themes and topics with the current issue. As the editor of ULUM, I am thankful to all those scholars and the members of the editorial board for their dedication, cooperation, and assistance.
Authors and Affiliations
Abdullah Demir
Hildegard as a Mystic and her Place in the Christian Thought (PhD. Dissertation)
Mysticism, visions, feminism, music, herbal medicine…Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) have been identified with these notions. Because she has influenced Christianity until today with her extraordinary visions and various...
Abū Ḥanīfa, Understandings about Abū Ḥanīfa, Māturīdiyya, Hanafī Theologians, Hanafī Jurists
The philosophy and the religion are the two different domains that are mainly addressed to find the most fundamental answers that we seek to lead our lives by attaching it a meaning that can satisfy us. For this reason,...
A Postcolonial Reading on Eurocentrism, Otherization and Orientalist Discourse in Sociological Thought and Its Criticism
Modernity has long been a dominant paradigm in producing knowledge and in determining theoretical framework of the disciplines although it is in connivance with a Eurocentric ideology and conflict of paradoxes in itself....
A Sufi’s Interpretation of Ḥadīth: The Case of Ibn ʿArabī and the Ḥadīths about Holding up the hands during the prayer (Raf‘ al-yadain)
This paper studies the understanding and interpretation of a specific ḥadīth by Muhy al-dīn Ibn ʿArabī . His view on the ḥadīthabout ‘holding up the hands during ṣalāh(raf‘ al-yadain)’ is explained in the light of his we...
The Criticism of Materialism in Late Ottoman’s New Science of Kalām
Materialism, which reduces the whole of existence as simply matter and its interactions, and respectively ignores the intervention of a divine being into the universe; it is often traced back to a time when philosophy wa...