Son dönem Osmanlı kelam geleneği: İsmail Gelenbevi (1730-1791) ve kelam risaleleri

Ismail Gelenbevi (d.1790) was an Ottoman scholar of great importance in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Most if not all studies to date have discussed Gelenbevi's contributions to the disciplines of logic, argumentation theory, and mathematics. This thesis provides an introduction to Gelenbevi's life and works by providing a succinct biography and an annotated bibliography of all of this works. Furthermore, it focuses on his contributions to the science of kalam, or systematic Islamic theology, by providing a study of his main kalam work, a gloss on Dawwani's (d.1509) commentary on Adud al-Iji's doctrinal primer. In particular, this thesis examines Gelenbevi's treatment of infinite regress, epistemology, human agency and subjectivity. These discussions demonstrate that Gelenbevi furthered the development of kalam in all of these areas, by providing new and more powerful arguments, in addition to providing a more in depth and unprecedented theorization of human subjectivity. The thesis also includes 6 editions of treatises by Gelenbevi that have not been published before: (1) a treatise on the tafsir of a Qur'anic verse; (2) a long treatise on the question of faith and action; (3) a treatise on priority (taqaddum); (4) a treatise on opposition (teqabul); (5) a treatise on the medium (wasita).