Seventeenth century versatile Ottoman scholar Taşköprüzâde Kātip Çelebi says in his books titled Keşfü’z-zünûn and Mîzânü’l-hak, that Fātih Sultan Mehmed had ordered that the kalam books named Haşiye-i Tecrîd and Şerh-i Mevâkıf should be taught at Semâniye madrasas which were established by him. He also says that these courses were selected among the students who were intending to be faculty member at madrasah according to their capacity on rational and transmitted sciences until the times of Kānuni Suleiman the magnificent. After Kānuni when Ottoman Empire entered the period of pause, the authorities removed those courses from the curriculum because of attitudes developed against philosophy and those courses were considered philosophical instead the courses called Hidāya and Ekmel from fiqh established in the curriculum. He also says that one of the Sheikh-ul-Islam prohibited the teaching of Hikmet, and that philosophical sciences, except for a few, were extinguished after later. In this study, many of Kātib Çelebi’s claims were shown not true, and those courses which were claimed to be abandoned actually were in the programs and there is no such order from any Sheikh-ul-Islam, however, not only philosophy all branches of material sciences were weakened afterward of the 16th century and even a recession were said to be occurred.
History of Turkish education Madrasah Philosophy in the Ottoman Decline of science in the Ottoman Empire Abolition of the philosophy course
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Religious Studies |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | March 25, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 |