RELIGIOUS INSIGHT APPEARING IN DEFINITIONS OF RELIGION -CLASIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF DEFINITIONS IN THE ISLAMIC THOUGHT-

In this article, some certain definitions of the religion in Islamic thought have been studied. The opinion that the definition is a clear indication reflecting not only the religious epistemological understanding of the person who describe it but also his personal conception of religion, worldview and the mentality, has been tried to be shown in these definitions of Muslim intellectuals. The definitions has been investigated in the line of developments and classified within itself by taking the historical process into consideration. In this study, has been tried to explain what kind of an understanding of religion Muslims have, how they approach the religion and to solve what kind of mentality does these definitions reflect by setting out from more than two hundred definitions that obtained to concrete that theoretical explanations. Since the historical process is taken into account in the study evaluated the definitions of religion that identify chronologically. Therefore it is aimed to question the change and development in Muslim's definitions of religion. After we have done the analysis and evaluation within the framework we define, we concluded with our own definition of religion in order to bring up new debatings and evaluations