Religion and Law in the Ottoman State

Year 2003, Issue: 1, 61 - 81, 01.06.2003

Ziya Kazıcı

Abstract

At the beginning of the XIV the century, the Ottoman Empire was a
small principality which came into being on the borders of Seljuk-Byzantine
lands. After a short time from its beginning, this principality
spread quikly in a wide geography and became a powerful state which
would change the destiny of the history.
The Ottoman Empire controlling a wide region, governed its
subjects who came from different religions, cultures, languages and
traditions in a just and successful way through the ages. Since the
beginning, peoples from other cultures had a sympathy for the Empire
because of justice and tolerance of the state for different religions. In
this study, the institutions of the country dutied for justice, will be
analysed.

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