INSTITUTION THAT EDUCATES SCHOLARS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, ‘MADRASA’

Abstract

Although The Ottoman Madrasas were established as a continuation of the Seljuk Madrasah tradition, they reached a much higher level in the term of organization with the Fatih and Suleymaniye Madrasas. In Madrasas, not only religious sciences, but mathematics, philosophy, engineering and medical sciences have been taught. In order to learn the intellectual sciences, the students traveled to Merv, Samarkand and Bukhara madrasas in Maveraünnehir. In order to acquire religious sciences, they traveled to Egypt and the Hijaz region. Islamic law (fıqıh) was most popular among the religious sciences taught in madrasahs. İslamic law (Fıqıh) has been most popular in religious sciences. Mental and religious sciences people who learned, the teacher, bureaucrat, imam and muezzin, physician,mayor of the office and the headman were engaged in the task of Qadhi.