Mehmet Akif Ersoy's interpretation and his Koran interpretation

Known as a literary figure and called as a "Nationalist Poet" in the Turkish history, Mehmet Akif, had always been interested in Koran throughout his life and tried to understand and explain it. He fastened down the lacking values and moral degenerations in the community just like a sociologist and introduced solutions inspired from Koran. Akif relates the underdevelopment of the Turks with divergence from Koran. And as a solution, he proposes going back to the plain and core Islam in which the first period Muslims were living. Though Akif was not an interpreter in the traditional sense, his knowledge on Arabic and Koran sciences made him interpret in the Koran interpretation field. When his interpretations of verses and suras from the Koran, his Koran inspired poems in his famous work Safahat (Stages), the Koran interpretation he has written and some interpretations of purports he has done from various authors taken into consideration, Akif's productivity within the Koran sciences reach a considerable amount. After taking all these data into consideration, we concluded that Akif had an interpretative aspect that is worth to be researched. In this very study, observing that Akif?s interpretation articles and Koran inspired poems overlap with ?Social Interpretation? method, we thought it would be appropriate to evaluate his interpretation writings within this context. We spared the first chapter of our study to Akif?s life, his works, his literary and scientific personality, his interest in interpretation and the way he perceives Koran. In the second chapter, we tried to explain the general features of Akif?s interpretation writings, the aim that led to the writing of the interpretations and the interpretation method within the ?Akif?s Interpretation? scope which in fact constitutes the main topic of our study. We devoted the third chapter of our study merely to Akif's Koran inspired poems. We tried to examine these poems, which possess the nature of the interpretation of the verses, considering their coherence with the verses, the principles derived from verses and the Koran like concepts. To sum up, we made an effort to reveal Akif's interpretative aspect taking his studies within the interpretation field into account. We tried to explain his relationship with Koran sciences and portray his competence and worthiness within this field. Key words: Social Interpretation, Akif?s Interpretation, Interpretation Articles, Koran Inspired Poems.