A STATICTICAL SURVEY ON THE QURANIC EXEGESES WRITTEN IN TURKISH IN THE REPUBLICAN ERA

It is a widely known fact that numerous exegeses emerged in our country from the establishment of Turkish Republic to up until today. Those are either works translated from other languages or exegeses authored in Turkish. Our focus in this article will be the latter. Those works will be subjected to some numerical analyses. In this context the exegeses translated during the Republican Era will be compared to the subject to a comparison with the ones authored in Turkish and the same quantitative manner in the modern Turkey. Additionally, the exegeses in question will be examined in accordance with various criteria including their scope, organization terms, and dates of publish as their subgenres such as al-tafsir bi al-riwaya (based on Quran and Sunnah), al-tafsir bi al-Diraya (opinion oriented), al-tafsir bi al-ahqam (on the Quranic commands) and exegeses based on basic Quranic concepts will be reviewed statistically. Starting from 1923, the works will be classified according to the decade they emerged in. Another question we will also address quantitatively is how to classify the exegeses according to their number of volumes. The chief goal of this article is a closer look at the Turkish translations of the Quranic exegeses with their various aspects statically as we intend to introduce them to the reader.