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Religious Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire - Institutional Change and the Professionalisation of the Ulema (Hardcover)
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Religious Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire - Institutional Change and the Professionalisation of the Ulema (Hardcover)
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The influence of the ulema, the official Sunni Muslim religious
scholars of the Ottoman Empire, is commonly understood to have
waned in the empire's last century. Drawing upon Ottoman state
archives and the institutional archives of the ulema, this study
challenges this narrative, showing that the ulema underwent a
process of professionalisation as part of the wider Tanzimat
reforms and thereby continued to play an important role in Ottoman
society. First outlining transformations in the office of the
Sheikh ul-islam, the leading Ottoman Sunni Muslim cleric, the book
goes on to use the archives to present a detailed portrait of the
lives of individual ulema, charting their education and
professional and social lives. It also includes a glossary of
Turkish-Arabic vocabulary for increased clarity. Contrary to
beliefs about their decline, the book shows they played a central
role in the empire's efforts to centralise the state by acting as
intermediaries between the government and social groups,
particularly on the empire's peripheries.
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