Genç Mütefekkirler Dergisi

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Modernity, which started in the Enlightenment period and continued as post-modernity, has inevitably become global, including us. Although contemporary Islamic thinkers have created a good acquaintance in order to open new horizons on modernity, the debates on this issue have continued day by day by gaining more and more different dimensions. Among those who approach the issue of modernity from an original and holistic perspective, the Moroccan contemporary thinker Taha Abdurrahman's The Spirit of Modernity (Ruhu'l Hadase) is an important contribution to the literature. In The Spirit of Modernity, Taha Abdurrahman, who stands out with his works on logic, philosophy of language and ethics, tries to present us that modernity is an abstract, umbrella concept with its own principles, that Western modernity is an application of this spirit, and that there may be other applications of modernity. In his work, Taha Abdurrahman explains the three basic principles of maturity, encompassing and criticism, which represent the spirit of renewal, instead of the concepts of rationalism, subjectivism and freedom that the West has determined for the definition of modernity. He elaborates and systematically conveys his original ideas on how to eliminate these errors in the Islamic model of renewal as opposed to the errors seen in the practice of Western modernity.