OTTOMAN ISLAMISTS AND ISLAMIC RENOVATORS: CONVERGENCE AND SEGREGATION

At first this article determines the appropriate properties of Islamism of the Second Constitutional period. Secondly this research establish through examples at which point the Ottoman Islamists have developed similar ideas with Islamic Renovators and at which point they are different. In fact, the Ottoman Islamists are in line with Islamic Renovators and its modern representatives, like Ahmad Sirhindi, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh Indian and Egyptian Sayyid Ahmed Khan. This study will try to determine what kind of specific link exist between Ottoman Islamists and Islamic Renovators.