"Being Muslim Between Universality and Locality" conference held by BİHLİMDER
BİHLİMDER hosted Prof. Dr. Bülent Şenay, one of the most important scientists of Türkiye.
Prof. Dr. Bülent Şenay, lecturer at Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Theology, attended the conference titled "Being Muslim Between Universality and Locality" as a speaker.
The conference, which was organised for the first time in Western Thrace with this topic and this guest, was attended by Turkey's Vice Consul in Komotini Baris Çulha, Deputy Mufti of Komotini Fehim Ahmet, President of BİHLIMDER Mehmet Emin Ahmet and many Western Thracians.
On Saturday 2 March, BİHLİMDER made the following statement on its official social media account about the conference, which took place in an extremely friendly atmosphere in the conference hall of BİHLİMDER in Komotini:
"We hosted our esteemed teacher Prof. Dr. Bülent Şenay from Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Theology on 2.03.2024 for his unique conversation titled "Being Muslim Between Universality and Locality".
We call it a conversation because the whole of the speech, which revolved around an introspective accounting with sincere intentions rather than the context of the conference, expanded from the infinite to the apex, keeping us in a balanced line between science and the world, and travelling around multifaceted mirrors.
The titles that offer the opportunity to open up from the depth of our own concepts to the honourable dimension of existence that contains the real meaning have enabled us to look at our own mirror clearly in the pendulum from "megalothymia" to "isothymia" as a basic leaning core that constitutes the basis of the Western paradigm of magnification/exposure.
He emphasised that, despite the recent rise of this supremacist / deferentialist attitude, Islamic thought has always been built on the balance of goodness, benevolence and justice, and that the practical dimension has already been reinforced and current with concepts such as taarrüf, taâvün, tesabûk, tedâfü.
We owe a debt of gratitude to our esteemed lecturer, whom we benefit from on the occasion of these conversations that capture the agenda from its lifeblood."
