Gokalp’s Look on Fiqh in the Context of Issues Regarding Women and Family Law / KADIN VE AİLE HUKUKU İLE İLGİLİ MESELELER BAĞLAMINDA ZİYA GÖKALP’İN FIKHA BAKIŞI

Ziya Gökalp is who one of the leading names of Turkish Intellectual life, the theorists of Turkism and Turkish nationalism in Turkish systematic thinking and practises.He has a vital role in the Committee of Union and Progress that ruled over the last period of the Ottoman Empire, also he exercised an important influence in shaping the Republic 's founding ideology of Turkism. Gokalp emphasized the necessary of Turkish revolution in according to the national structure by sociology. From this perspective, for he solutions of Ottoman social problems in the last period, he claimed the method of fıqh to open field to sociology. The effects of “Gokalp's the method of Fıqh” are seen lots of his articles in his next terms, about women and family law.Gokalp often emphasized to customs that is the basic concept of Fıqh when he explained these subjects and proposed some solutions about problems. However Gokalp, changed in a significant manner Fıqh methods.Moreover, he does not accept sociology as a branche of Fıqh anymore. According to him sociology is a private referance source in social life. In this article, particularly some articles about women and family life written by Gokalp in New Journal in 1917 were mainly in places.In addition to this, some articles about the method of Fıqh that were pressed in Islamic Journal in 1917 were used in this article with some writings and books in his subseguent period. In the light of above mentioned facts that, it can be concluded that, in this article, opinions of Gokalp about the contradictions between sociology and the method of Fıqh both are analised and criticed.