CoHE President Erol Özvar Attends Sabri Orman’s Memorial Event
June 17, 2022 / İstanbul
An event to remember Prof. Dr. Sabri Orman, who carried out important
studies in economics and Islamic economics in Türkiye, was held.
Sabri Orman, who was also the teacher of CoHE President Erol Özvar, was
commemorated on the second anniversary of his death with a panel organized
by Istanbul Ticaret University and Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (İTO).
The panel titled "Understanding Sabri Orman: Following the World of
Thoughts of a Philosopher" was attended by CoHE President Prof. Erol Özvar,
İTO President Şekib Avdagiç, Istanbul Ticaret University Rector Prof. Yücel
Oğurlu, academics and the relatives of Sabri Orman.
Speaking at the event held at the Sütlüce Campus of Istanbul Ticaret
University, CoHE President Özvar stated that Sabri Orman was a very
significant teacher in his field and said; "We have attained the positive
behaviors in reshaping and improving ourselves from our teachers. People
achieve morality and satisfaction only by living with the valuable and
highly qualified people they are surrounded with. It is like filling water
from a fountain. Teaching starts from here, and science follows it. Science
is actually a state, and the state passes from the scholar to his student.
If there is a valid science, it will pass as it is.”
“The Islamic Economic Project was a project to be presented to the
world”
Özvar stated that Sabri Orman had the Islamic Economics Project in mind in
the early 1980s and said, “It was one of the most important projects that
he could proudly present to the Islamic world from Türkiye. This agenda
from the 1980s can be easily transferred and presented to the world as an
exciting project even today. Sabri Orman built some of the most important
pillars of this project, and young academics will continue the project.”
“When we were students in the early 1980s, there was a limited number of
works concerning Islamic economics and the question of what economics is in
Islam,” Özvar said and continued: “It is assumed that Islamic economics
emerged with the dollar crisis in the 1970s. The project put forward by
Sabri Orman argues that it did not arise due to the dollar crisis. He said
that the foundation of the field of Islamic economics is actually based on
the first Islamic sources and that we could trace the Islamic economy back
to the time of the prophet. He had designed an intellectual space instead
of technical solutions for the Islamic economy.”
“We are ready to support the Islamic Economic Project”
Özvar underlined that they could all think and act together about how the
Islamic Economic Project would continue and stated that this project was a
significant project in the formation of economic thought in the Islamic
world. He added that CoHE wanted to give all kinds of support to
universities that were willing to carry out the project.
The book titled "Understanding Sabri Orman" was also introduced in the
event.