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Muslim religious experiences
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to present and to encourage discussion of issues raised by
consideration of the topic of the Joint Annual Conference of the Modern Churchpeople’s
Union and the Alister Hardy Society 2004, The God Experience: who has it and why? from the
Muslim perspective. The presentation consists of four sections: beginning with an
introduction giving an overview of religious experience among the main Islamic sources of
knowledge about God, and also an overview of the Islamic concept of God in relation to
Muslim religious experience. The next section deals with the personal religious experience of
ordinary Muslims in the sense of non-mystics or non-Sufis. The third section deals with the
religious experience of Muslim mystics, namely, the Sufis, and the last section is concerned
with Muslim religious experience in an inter-faith context. Following a systematic description
of Sufi and Non-Sufi Muslim religious experiences, I argue that religious experience should
be encouraged more and more as a direct and personal source or support of faith in God in
our present time of suspicion, individualisation and outwardness
Din ve Terör İlişkisinin Din Felsefesi Açısından Tahlili
No full textIn this article, religion-terror relation has been examined in a method similiar to which has been put in such issues dealt with in the philosophy of religion as religion-science relation, reason-faith relation, but this time completely hypothetically and within a triple typology constituting the three chapters of article: Decomposition, agreement, conflict. Under the title of decomposition, the Irrationalism and Fideism in the philosophy of religion have been discussed in respect of terrorism. Under the title of agreement, the religious exclusivism, theistic subjectivism and divine punishment have been again discussed from the same point and under the title of conflict, the issues of the religious comprehensiveness/multiplicity, theistic objectivism and defense of free will have been analysed in terms of terror. In the conclusion, it has been argued that, when considered in terms of philosophy of religion, none kind of terror and violence can be accepted by religio
