Türk siyasal hayatında bir İslamcı aydın: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek'in entelektüel ve siyasi biyografisi (1904-1983)

Necip Fazıl Kısakürek is one of the most important intellectuals of Turkish political and thought life. With his tens of books and the Büyük Doğu Journal he published at intervals between the years 1943-1978, he had an important place in Turkish thought life. Besides, he was one of the prominent initiators of the revival of Islamism in Modern Turkey. The aim of this study is to present meaningful findings about the development of Islamic thought in post-Republic Turkish political life by examining the intellectual and political life of Kısakürek. Since the study is conducted through the biography method, an alternative reading for the Turkish Political Life is also presented. This study argues that Kısakürek was a modernist Islamist who aimed at total transformation of state and society structure according to the Büyük Doğu ideology which he designed as an alternative modernization project to Kemalism by taking Islamic principles as the reference point. In that regard, Kısakürek's Büyük Doğu ideology is analyzed in the light of Eisenstadt and Göle's works on 'Non-Western modernity' concept and it is tried to be explained that Büyük Doğu is an ideology of which capacity of achieving a conceivable and realizable state and society structure is low.