Saygı

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saygı (Turkish: attention, respect) is one of the four ethical categories that are of central importance for the value structure in traditional Islamic-Turkish culture. It regulates the relationship between the young and the elderly or between the children and their parents .

According to Werner Schiffauer, children in rural Islamic societies owe parents respect and esteem. “This requirement is based on the fact that the child owes its life to its parents and is nurtured and cared for by them during the first years of life. This one-sided and in principle irreparable gift of the parents establishes the duty of respect (saygı) on the part of the child ”, whereby in Turkish respect is less a feeling than“ a comprehensive obligation, which in addition to obedience and respect also the obligation of support in old age and which is expressed by numerous and detailed rules of action ”. For example, through “the prohibition of drinking alcohol, smoking, generally indulging, contradicting, etc. in the presence of those whom you owe respect to, drinking alcohol, smoking, etc.”. Accordingly, it is never mentioned that “respect must be 'felt' (duymak or hissetmek)”, but always only that it “must be 'shown' (göstermek)”. Just as it is necessary to “respect the integrity of the other” (unless one intends to initiate an argument), it is necessary “to give the other person no doubt about one's own integrity”. This gives the action a representative and formal trait. Above all, a family must show that “internal relationships obey the norm”. The respect (saygı) which the family members owe their father and which is considered to be a guarantee for the cohesion of the family is “felt as well as shown (göstermek). You don't smoke in the presence of your father; does not sit down relaxed when he is in the room; remains silent when third parties are present; does not contradict him ”. (The farmers of Subay, pp. 27f., 55.)

literature

  • The Subay farmers. Life in a Turkish Village , Werner Schiffauer, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1987

See also

Web links