Doğu - Batı İlişkiler Dengesizliği İçinde Muhafazakarlığın Dönüşümü: İki Yüz Yıllık Bir Muhasebe Girişimi The Western Expansionism in the Middle-East and Cemaleddin Afgani’s Conformist-Westernist Role That Takes Islam as a Reference

Cemaleddin Afgani was an Islam philosopher and activist that became prominent in XIXth. century when the Islamic world was taken under control by Western forces. Western forces developed several strategies to establish and reinforce their authority and control in the Islamic world. In the Muslim lands it was obvious not to get a successful result from the missionary activities led by the church. For this reason, they sought a way to get use of the local administrators (such as khedive of Egypt, shah of Iran), Western educated intellectual class, higher ranks (the Caste system in India), ulema (especially British controlled Wahhabi movement, some Iranian mullahs and Al-Azhar group) etc. In this article firstly, Cemaleddin Afgani is discussed in the context of his inconsistent actions and the role of modernisation he played in Islamic world is questioned.