%0 Journal Article %T The Problem of Tradition as a Drifting Power into Oblivion: Supressing, Silencing and Forgetting %A Burhanettin Tatar %J - %D 2018 %X This paper aims at focusing on some crucial questions as follows: What kind of relation can be observed between QurĄŻanic claim to absolute truth and memory? Can this relation be taken as a form of silencing and suppressing so-called the others of Islam? And finally what are reasons for forgetting, silencing and suppressing some voices, texts, and concepts in Islamic tradition? As far as we can see, when monological-conceptual thinking, which tried to reach at whole or absolute truth, dominated reflective textual tradition, this tradition became a drifting power into oblivion for the parts which made contribution to the formation of this tradition %K baskŁżlama %K susturma %K unutuluŁż %K gelenek %K KurĄŻan %U http://dergipark.org.tr/milel/issue/41860/505020