Said Halim Pasha'nın "İslam'da Teşkilat-ı Siyassiye" adlı eseri bir analiz ve çeviri

Despite being one of the Ottoman Empire's last grand viziers and a prominent Islamist intellectual, Said Halim Pasha has long been an underrated figure. I will provide a critical translation of Said Halim Pasha's essay Islam'da Teşkilat-ı Siyasiyye, based on the French original, while taking note of the existing Ottoman and English translations. I will then move to an analysis of the text, where inspired by the Cambridge School of intellectual history, I will attempt to answer the question "What did Said Halim Pasha intend to do with "Islam'da Teşkilat-ı Siyasiyye" and how can we understand his intention within the context of preceding and contemporary discourses?" Despite usually being understood as a "traditionalist," I will argue that Said Halim Pasha should largely be understood within a late Ottoman attempt to create an Islamic modernity, that is an alternative or negotiated "modernity." Specifically within the context of a growing positivism which posited a contradiction between science and religion, Said Halim Pasha intended to create what he saw as scientific grounds for the Sharia's sovereignty to form the basis for a representative and modern Islamic state.