SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Islam
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Christianity
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Shintoism
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Buddhism
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Ottoman Empire was an empire inspired and sustained by Islam.
Detailed explanation-2: -Islam had been established in Anatolia before the emergence of the empire, but between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the religion spread with Ottoman conquest to the Balkan Peninsula and central Hungary.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sunni Islam was the official religion of the Ottoman Empire. The highest position in Islam, caliphate, was claimed by the sultan, after the defeat of the Mamluks which was established as Ottoman Caliphate.
Detailed explanation-4: -Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries. Arab Muslim forces conquered vast territories and built imperial structures over time.