ISLAMIC PERSPECIVE’ S EFFECT ON NON MUSLIMS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Journal Title: Journal of the Human and Social Science Researches - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
While they merely rule a tiny principality in the early 11th century, the Ottomans afterwards become governors of a great state whose land stretches over initially the Anatolian peninsula and Europe and later Asia and even North Africa. The Ottoman State had been advocating tolerance towards mankind by virtue of its unshakable relationship with Islam. The Ottomans had implemented such policies of law and tolerance against the non-Muslim communities with an unsubstantial population that their cultural effect had become noticeable in various continents. This very fact had enabled the Ottoman State to stay in the large and far lands over centuries. It is quite conceivable that the policies which the Ottomans had carried out towards other nations have a high sensibility in common with the idea of modern democracy. The said policies of the Ottoman state stemmed out of the Islamic point of view by which they had perceived the World. As it may sound to be a fact which is mentioned in numerous times, Islam relies upon the freedom of religion and conscience in terms of its rules which shape and direct the life of Muslims. In consequence of this fact, the Ottoman State had not forced the peoples of the lands that they had captured to be Muslim like themselves yet it had demonstrated a great tolerance to them to live their religion freely. This study deals with the perspective of the Ottoman state which accomplished peaceful co-existence of a great deal of nations which had different cultures and religions owing to the policies of law and tolerance that are derived from Islam.
Authors and Affiliations
Mustafa YİĞİTOĞLU*| Yrd. Doç. Dr., Karabük Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi, İslam Tarihi ve Sanatları Bölümü, İslam Tarihi Anabilim Dalı Öğretim Üyesi. mustafayigitoglu@karabuk.edu.tr
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