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“The most fundamental duty of a Muslim ruler….was to maintain the Shariah. In the Ottoman period, the institutions by which the Shariah was preserved were drawn into closer union…than ever before. The school of law favoured by the Ottomans was the hanafi school, and the judges who administered it were paid for directly by the government. They created a special corps of ulema and ranked and graded them. They created a new military court (kadikaser)… to curb the excesses of previous caliphs. - Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:56:20 +0000

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