A Sociological approach to Babanzade Ahmet Naim Efendi's "Islamism"

In this study, we discussed Babanzade's understanding of Islamism from a sociological perspective.Our aim is to evaluate and understand the Islamism of Babanzade; life, works and social connections to evaluate and try to understand in depth. In the introduction chapter, we have included introductory information about the purpose, importance, method, basic works of our study and the content of the thesis. In the first chapter, we discussed his life, works and translation method.The reason we deal with his life and works is that we think that every idea should be handled in its social context.In the second chapter, we explain Babanzade's thoughts on philosophy and his comparison of hadith methodology with modern methodology of history. In the third chapter, we discussed Babanzade's understanding of morality, Kant's critique of his ethics and his comparison between rationalist morality and Islamic ethic.In the fourth chapter, we interpreted Islamism, Babanzade's understanding of Islamism and his views on nationalism. In the concluding section, we evaluated the ideas expressed in our study, and interpreted the idea of Islamism in the context of the dilemma of tradition and modernism.