The Ottoman Empire

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This paper aims to elucidate the rich and vibrant historical account to Islamic leaders and their contribution to the education, science, literature, art, architecture and culture all around the world regions. Islam is a religion where science has always formed an integral part of religion historically and many leaders can be attributed to bring science to Islam. The status of Islam in current times has been associated with backward and regressive society and many other religions believe that Muslims are not compatible with science and technology. However, looking back at the history of Islamic leaders, it can be seen that Islam and technology are intertwined and science has been the basis for Muslim people’s everyday life and every ritual …show more content…

The Empire reached its peak in the year 1520 to 1566 and it expanded will Balkans and Hungary. However it began to decline after the Battle of Lepato in 1571 and got finished by the time First World War and Balkan war struck (Finkel, 2006). The legacy of Ottoman Empire that can be seen in current times is the secular fabric of the society. The history of Ottoman Empire shows that Islamic society was highly centralized, religion was a part of state structure and the empire was run by Islamic ideology. As a multiethnic, multi-religious, and multi-cultural entity, the Ottoman Empire was the last of the great Islamic empires, which emerged in the later Middle Ages and continued its existence until the early twentieth century (Barkey, …show more content…

Ruling over Islamic courts was a Qadi, or magistrate. As the concluding of the ijtihad, or Gate of Interpretation, Qadis through the Ottoman Empire concentrated not as much on legal precedent, and more with local taxes and civilizations in the regions that they managed. Though, the Ottoman court organization was deficient in an appellate organization, resulting into jurisdictional case approaches where claimants could take their disagreements from one court scheme to a different one until they attained a presiding that was in their favor. The Ottoman scheme had three court organizations: one for Muslims, one for non-Muslims, concerning prearranged Jews and Christians governing over their corresponding religious groups, and the "trade court". The entire scheme was controlled from above by means of the managerial Qanun, i.e. laws, a system based upon the Turkic Yassa and Töre, which were established in the pre-Islamic era.
Contribution to Science, technology, arts, architecture and medicine
The contributions of Islamic leaders to the inventions that shaped the modern world can be traced back to long time back. The origins of fundamental concepts and ideas like cup of coffee, toothbrush, and bicycle are a part of 000 years of Muslim heritage. Apart from these random and minor inventions that form part of modern life, there are some inventions that are crucial and path breaking for the

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