İslam Felsefesinde İbadetler Ekseninde Dindarlık

Abstract

Religiosity in general is seen as the way of life formed by taking into account the orders and prohibitions of the religion one believes in. It can be stated that there are three dimensions to religiosity: faith (īmān), worship (ibadah), and morality (akhlaq). The concept of religiosity is not directly addressed in Islamic philosophy. However, some clues about religiosity can be reached based on the ideas put forward regarding worship. In this study, some of the prominent thinkers (Amiri, Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā, Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ghazali) of early Islamic philosophy, who directly expressed their views on worship in their works, will be included. In this sense, the work of Ibn Sīnā called al-Kashf ‘an Mâhiyyat al-Salât wa Hikmat Tashri’iha li Ibn Sīnā is one of the sources to be consulted. This article aims to reveal that the worship and morality dimensions of religiosity should not be ignored and to reveal the function of worship in reaching moral maturity, through the views of these thinkers on worship. In this framework, it can be concluded that not only worship but also the dimension of morality is important, and that worship should support the morality aspect.