Week 9
Lecture
Islamism in Ottoman regime
Religion of empire:
Hanafi legal school
Sunni muslim religion
No forceful conversions
Shaykh al islam:
Fatwa: legal opinion of mufti (Muslim scholar)
Give fatwas according to fiqh on religious, political nd administrative issues
Under grand vizer in importance
Ulema class:
Scholars class
Education: midresas to teach Islamic rules and science
Jurisdiction: qadi (judge)
Fatwa section: Mufti
Islamic law: sharia
Important legal are for muslims according to legal law
Caliphate
Caliph: considered shadow of god on earth
After conquest of Egypt(1517), sultans became caliph
Ghaza:
Policy implemented during early stage of empire for conquering
People called ‘ghazi’
Islamic belief that equal to martyrdom
Colonization and abode of Islam
Middle and north African part colonized partially by English
British colonized india using EIC
Blow to the empire
Solutions against colonial acts:
Modernization
Westernists
Nationalists
Islamists
Ulema and muslims scholars blamed islam’s inefficiency
Hence wanted to reform and renew islam
Islamism:
Lecture
Islamism in Ottoman regime
Religion of empire:
Hanafi legal school
Sunni muslim religion
No forceful conversions
Shaykh al islam:
Fatwa: legal opinion of mufti (Muslim scholar)
Give fatwas according to fiqh on religious, political nd administrative issues
Under grand vizer in importance
Ulema class:
Scholars class
Education: midresas to teach Islamic rules and science
Jurisdiction: qadi (judge)
Fatwa section: Mufti
Islamic law: sharia
Important legal are for muslims according to legal law
Caliphate
Caliph: considered shadow of god on earth
After conquest of Egypt(1517), sultans became caliph
Ghaza:
Policy implemented during early stage of empire for conquering
People called ‘ghazi’
Islamic belief that equal to martyrdom
Colonization and abode of Islam
Middle and north African part colonized partially by English
British colonized india using EIC
Blow to the empire
Solutions against colonial acts:
Modernization
Westernists
Nationalists
Islamists
Ulema and muslims scholars blamed islam’s inefficiency
Hence wanted to reform and renew islam
Islamism:
