العالم الإسلامي وتحديات القرن الجديد منظمة التعاون الإسلامي

by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, أكمل الدين إحسان أوغلو

"The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is the Muslim world's only intergovernmental body-the largest such system operating outside of the United Nations. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC was founded forty years ago to respond to the Palestinian crisis and counts fifty-seven Muslim countries among its members. It has since branched out into economic development, education, culture, science, technology, conflict resolution, and countering Islamophopia. Sharing the history of the OIC with Western readers for the first time, this book details the achievements, successes, and failures of a singular political body and why modernization is so central to the development to the development of Islamic society." In 2005, the OIC elected Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of Turkey to transform it's platform and intentions. Ihsanoglu has since tackled the difficult problems of illiteracy and poverty, economic underdevelopment, and ethnic and sectarian conflict. In this history he devotes an important chapter to Islamophobia and its impact on relations between Islam and the West. The OIC treats Islamophobia as a form of racism and xenophobia, and Ihsanoglu explains why it is essential for international institutions to work together to combat violent extremism. He also argues that representative government, free speech, and equal rights for all citizens are critical for Muslim societies, and he envisions the need to reform the OIC as a necessary step toward renewing the Muslim World.

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First published September 28, 2010

About the author

1943’te Kahire’de doğdu. Ain Shams Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi’nden mezun olduktan sonra el-Ezher Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Fen Fakültesi’nde akademik hayata başladı. Türk kültürünü çok küçük yaşta iken aile çevresinde tanıyan İhsanoğlu, Kahire Milli Kütüphanesi’nde (1962-66) ve Ain Shams Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’nde (1966-70) Osmanlı kültürü ve edebiyatı ile ilgili araştırma ve eğitim çalışmalarında bulundu. 1974’te Ankara Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi’nde doktora çalışmasını tamamladıktan sonra, İngiltere’de Exeter Üniversitesi’nde doktora sonrası çalışmalarını sürdürdü. 1984’te profesör oldu. Eğitim ve meslek hayatı boyunca İslâm ve Batı kültürüyle yakından teması olan İhsanoğlu, halen İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi’nin (IRCICA) genel direktörlüğünün yanısıra İ.Ü. Edebiyat Fakültesi Bilim Tarihi Bölümü ile Türk Bilim Tarihi Kurumu’nun başkanlığını ve İ.Ü. Bilim Tarihi Müze ve Dokümantasyon Merkezi’nin müdürlüğünü yapmaktadır. Kurucusu olduğu bu kurumlar bünyesinde öncülük ettiği araştırma ve yayınlarla Türkiye’deki bilim tarihine ve özellikle Osmanlı bilim tarihi araştırmalarına yeni bir yaklaşım getirmiştir. UNESCO, Harvard Üniversitesi’ndeki görevlerinin yanısıra, ulusal ve uluslararası birçok bilim kurumunun üyesi olan İhsanoğlu, bilim ve eğitim tarihine katkı ve hizmetlerinden dolayı birçok ödüle layık görülmüştür.

Reviews

[Lale D · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK. I wanted to read this book in order to find out more about Turkey's new Presidential candidate. Even though the book mainly explains the history, goals and accomplishments of the "IKT"(Islamic Conference Organization), it also gives a lot of insight into the views of its author, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who has been the president of this organization past 9 years, and the president of one of its sub-organizations for 25 years prior to that.

What I have found, much to my relief, that Ekmeleddin, while being a deeply religious devout muslim, is not a radical islamist. He has consistently pushed for reforms and modernization during his reign over the IKT, defended women's rights and children's health and education, worked hard to end sectarian violence in Iraq (though not too successfully as recent events in Iraq show), improve human rights in islamic countries, foster trade and economic cooperation between them, help the most needy islamic countries in Africa, fight islamophobia in the west. He also clearly states in the first section of the book that 'state and religion should be independent from each other with neither having an undue influence on the other'.

In the end even though I am not too excited about his candidacy, I am finding him to be an acceptable candidate and a much better alternative than the other candidate!

[Faisal ElBeheiry · Rating 4 out of 5]

من الكتب القلائل التي لم أكملها، لا لأسلوب الكتاب، فهو متمكن رائع، و لكن لغيظ وقع في نفسي، الصهاينة يهاجمون أهلنا في فلسطين و يستولون علي أراضيهم، و ماذا عن رد فعلنا؟ الجلوس علي مائدة المفاوضات، بيان شديد اللهجة، قطع العلاقات الدبلوماسية، كلها نوع من الطيبة من العدو و الذي أمرنا فية الله بآية سورة الأنفال "وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمْ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَمِنْ رِبَاطِ الْخَيْلِ تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ وَآخَرِينَ مِنْ دُونِهِمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَهُمُ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُهُمْ ۚ وَمَا تُنْفِقُوا مِنْ شَيْءٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ يُوَفَّ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ لَا تُظْلَمُونَ (60)"