Turkish Islamic political thought and its impact on the thought of Islamic parties

Thought certainly has no boundaries and does not move in one direction. It may return in the opposite direction from which it began. While human thought is cumulative, it is constantly evolving. However, this should not affect theories and ideologies, given their underlying constants and values; otherwise, they would become different ideas and ideologies. Neither liberal nor communist thought derives its ideas from the opposite direction, nor from Islam, and vice versa. Islamic thought is supposed to reject everything that contradicts Islamic law. Accepting any term requires firstly, a return to the origins of the term, identifying its premises and basic sources upon which the term was constructed and the resulting ideas or practices. Then, examining whether they align with the underlying thought of this or that thought, and from an Islamic perspective, whether they conflict with Islamic constants, or whether their use is permissible. Within this approach, and without taking into account the origins and constants, the concept of the Islamization of modernity emerged, by combining Western and Islamic ideas. These ideas are among those proposed by the Turkish Justice and Development Party, which adopted this approach after its founding in 2002. However, the issue did not stop in Türkiye, as the influence of these ideas spread to Arab Islamic parties and figures who were impressed by the Turkish experience.