TÜRK-İSLAM AKEOLOJİSİ: KISITLAR VE FIRSATLAR

Abstract

The establishment of the discipline of the Turkish-Islamic Archaeology historically coincides with some contempo­rary debates in social sciences. This study primarily reveals some socio-scientific and socio-political issues, which are the potentials and limitations of Turkish-Islamic Archaeology discipline embedded in a common scientific dis­course. The problems of Turk-Islamic Archeology are evaluated in two stratums: on the one hand the structural problems related to main stream modern social science tradition and on the other hand specific problems inherent in general to Turkish social science and in private to Turkish archaeology science. In this study, the structural aspects of archaeology formed through modern knowledge and academy systematic are conceptualized as culturalism, a-culturalism, time politics, taxonomy concept and methodological issues related to theory. These paradigmatic features, at the same time incorporate both promises of and provided opportunities by Turkish-Islamic Archaeology as a po­tential. This study evaluates commonality of troubles and opportunity fields specific to the production of time, space and culture with regard to archaeology and discusses time politics as the basis of archaeological knowledge. In this study, Turkish-Islamic archaeology is confronted with the theoretical agenda and main approaches of archaeology; afterwards Turkish-Islamic archeology is evaluated through both critical/hermeneutic and constituent/constructive aims. This study tries to evaluate scientific opportunities and disadvantages of Turk-Islamic archeology as well as brings forward some proposals.