Izmirli İsmail Hakkı's efforts to combine philosophy andtheology

İzmirli İsmail Hakkı (1868-1946) lived during the end of the Ottoman Empireand the early period of the Republic, wrote works in many fields of Islamic sciences, and was a versatile scholar with a rational and critical perspective. He found the science of theology inadequate to meet the scientific needs of the period he lived in, and deemed it necessary to reorganize this science in terms of method, method and content to meet the needs of the day. In the chaotic and problematic environment of the last period of the Ottomans, he made gread efforts to revive the Islamic understanding of thought, especially the science of theology. He followed the scientific and technical developments that were rapidly spreading in the West and wanted to create the New Science of theology that he aimed for in the light of these developments. İzmirli, who also fought against the harmful thoughts and movements that emerged in the West and threatened the Islamic belief system, refuted their wrong ideas by using their evidence. İzmirli İsmail Hakkı, who thought that Islamic thought and Western philosophy complemented each other, tried to find solutionsto the problems of the age by combining