The contribution of İsmail Hakki İzmirli to scientific Islamic teology

The most important one of the philosophers and the scientists of the last period of the Ottoman Empire and Republic Period is definitely İsmail Hakkı İzmirli. İzmirli?s the most determining characteristic of his 78 years of life adventure starting in 1868 and ending on 1 February in 1946 in Ankara is his science enthusiasm. This enthusiasm of science of İzmirli made him to be an expert in a very large information fields and caused him to be the founder of a set of science branches and again motivated him to renew himself in a set of sciences. İzmirli made a big effort to renew Islamic theology by his work called Yeni İlm-i Kelam and many articles including the same topic. According to İzmirli an Islamic theology which meets the need of the time and is eguivalent to the existing philosophy should be written. According to him unless making an innovation in the science of Islamic theology which is the main defender of Islam it gets difficult to extend Islam religion to the scientific environment. As a matter of fact by neglecting this in the last centuries, it causes the decrease in the authority power of Islam which is an inborn a rational religion. İt is to be understood from İzmirli?s effort to join the philosophy and Islamic theology that he believed Islamic theology coult not be made without philosophy. In his works of Islamic theology which he wrote in this purpose he 82 guote from the opinion of the westerner philosophers and accompanied the Islamic theolgy and positive ideas and methods of western philosophy.