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ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

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Base your answer to this question on the passage below and your knowledge of Global History."It would be wrong to call the Ottoman Empire a purely Islamic state. It was not. It was a state that claimed some kind of attachment, some kind of allegiance to Islam but combined it was other forms of heritage from the Byzantine tradition or from the Turkic tradition that did not really respond to Islam. So they always had this very, very pragmatic approach to Islam.-Professor Edhem Eldem, Bogazici University This author is suggesting that during the Ottoman Empire
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religion was mingled with historic traditions
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most people belonged to minority religions
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rulers tried to separate politics from religion
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rulers operated under a strict set of laws
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the early modern period, many Ottoman Turks, especially those who lived in the cities and were not part of the military or administration, instead commonly self-identified as Romans (Rūmī, ), as inhabitants of former Byzantine territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the Ottoman Empire, non-Muslims did not have equal rights. For example, the Ottoman Empire had sharia law, which was Islamic. This meant, for instance, that in court, the testimony of a non-Muslim was only equivalent in value to half that of a Muslim’s testimony.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ottoman Empire developed over the years as a despotism with the Sultan as the supreme ruler of a centralized government that had an effective control of its provinces, officials and inhabitants. Wealth and rank could be inherited but were just as often earned.

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