The Ottoman Ulema 1: Osman, The Caliphate & The Mamluks - With Dr Yakoob Ahmed
The Thinking Muslim
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The Importance of the Islamic State in the Balkans
In the sixteenth century there becomes a clear distinction of job roads, because knowledge becomes quite specific. There's a distinction between the military class, the scriba class, and the ilmi, which is the religious class. And so this is how the ilme structure sort of starts to emerge. In the eighteenth nineteenth century something even more interesting happens. The Ilme doesn't extend into the arab provinces. Why? I mean, it could be one of the reasons is that machineryat that level of machinery, has already been established. Extending out into theArab provinces would have been a humangos task.
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