@article{2015,title={UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS REGARDING OF PROPHET MOHAMMAD: A METAPHORICAL STUDY},abstractNode={The aim of this study was to reveal perceptions regarding the concepts of Prophet Mohammad of university students’ by metaphors. The research study was carried out at the 2014-2015 academic year with 194 university students who educating at the Theology Faculty and Social Service Department at the Gümüşhane University. The study is a descriptive research in the survey model. The study’s datas were gathered through a form which included phrases like “Prophet Mohammed is similar …, because...”. The analysis and interpretation of data were used content analysis techniques. Results of this study showed that 53 metaphors were developed regarding the concept of Prophet Mohammed that these metaphors gathered under 9 categories. Metaphor categories were created ‘guide’, ‘specimen’, ‘enlightener’, ‘leader’, ‘emotional qualification’, ‘instructive’, ‘savior’, ‘key’ and ‘other’ from metaphors were developed perceptions regarding to Prophet Mohammed. According to the results, metaphors regarding to Prophet Mohammed, more in number was obtained in the ‘guide’, ‘specimen’ and ‘enlightener’ categories. In the analysis relationship between demographic variables and categories, according to faculty variable, theology faculty students developed more metaphor in the ‘specimen’, ‘enlightener’ and ‘instructive’ categories. According to sexuality variable, male students developed more metaphor in the ‘instructive’ category while female students developed more metaphor in the ‘specimen’ category. According to high-school graduation case, graduated other high-school students developed more metaphor in the ‘specimen’ category, while graduated from religious vocational high-school students developed more metaphor in the ‘guide’ and ‘enlightener’ categories. According to subjective religiosity perception, persons that accepted as religious developed more metaphor in the ‘specimen’ category, while persons that accepted as low religious developed more metaphor in the ‘enlightener’ and ‘emotional qualification’ categories.},author={Saffet KARTOPU-- Abdullah DAĞCI},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}