Mehmet S. AYDIN

 Prof. Dr.. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi

Like many modem subjects of the contemporary social sciences, modernization is a very complex and thus ihorny issue. Tlıe complexity an even irksomeness increase when one takes the modernization in the Muslim world into account. This is due to many reasons: To begin with, modernization as a proccess ot" intensive socio-cultural change is somewhat "foreign" in the millieu in which it has been operating with many great ups and downs. No doubt, ali societes trom a culture tlıat il desires to lead hurriedly from a traditional setting to a modem one, a self-conscious reaction seems to be inevitable.