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Fuat Sezgin İlme Adanmış Bir Ömür
"Through his scientific work, Fuat Sezgin responded to Orientalists and instilled self-confidence in Muslim nations that believed that everything good belonged to the West. According to him, today's European civilization is a continuation of Islamic civilization, which emerged in a different geography under different historical conditions. Sezgin has been a representative of a more original and freer stance against the cultural and intellectual imperialism shaped by Orientalist literature.
Sezgin summarized the fundamental goal of all his work as follows: "I belong to a world of science, culture, and civilization. We are not rootless or ownerless. We have been the cradle of a civilization with deep roots. However, for centuries, I have witnessed this civilization being ignored, its rights being violated, it being humiliated, everything it has achieved being taken away, and it being subjected to oppression. I have made it my goal to introduce the dazzling accumulation of Islamic civilization and its great contributions to world science to a world that is unaware of it. Part of this effort is solely to serve the scientific community, but another very important goal is to restore the self-respect, confidence, and place in human history that the entire Islamic world has lost, by reminding them of what they have lost."
Sezgin summarized the fundamental goal of all his work as follows: "I belong to a world of science, culture, and civilization. We are not rootless or ownerless. We have been the cradle of a civilization with deep roots. However, for centuries, I have witnessed this civilization being ignored, its rights being violated, it being humiliated, everything it has achieved being taken away, and it being subjected to oppression. I have made it my goal to introduce the dazzling accumulation of Islamic civilization and its great contributions to world science to a world that is unaware of it. Part of this effort is solely to serve the scientific community, but another very important goal is to restore the self-respect, confidence, and place in human history that the entire Islamic world has lost, by reminding them of what they have lost."
168 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2024
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