M uslim S elbstverständnis : A hmet D avutoğlu answers H usserl's Crisis of E uropean Sciences

In formulating his understanding of Islamic history, thought and politics, the T urkish M uslim thinker A hmet D avutoğlu approves and adopts the G erman philosopher E dmund H usserl's formulation of phenomenology — or, philosophy of consciousness. Both H usserl and D avutoğlu perceive a crisis in humanity and identify its causes in scientism and logical positivism, against which they develop their respective phenomenological alternatives. This article places in parallel H usserl's stylised history of W estern thought and W eltanschauung method with that of D avutoğlu's M uslim worldview, in order to illuminate the latter's putatively comprehensive interpretation of Islam, diagnosis of the ills of secularism, modernisation, and crisis of values he finds in Muslim societies; and his prescribed treatment for those ills: the privileging of ontology over epistemology, and the full unfolding of core theological concepts of revelation, monotheism, and prophecy. Davutoğlu seeks to reconcile tensions and disputes within I slamic intellectual traditions concerning the nature of God and G od's attributes, and the tension between mysticism and rationalism, and the historical and the atemporal. In summary, D avutoğlu's intervention in Islamic traditions is interesting in the effort it makes to appropriate elements of both H usserl and GWF H egel for the purpose of reconciling a phenomenological reading of I slam with established I slamic authorities and commitments.