WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ottoman Empire was an empire inspired and sustained by Islam.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ottoman Empire was a major force for Islam in between Europe and Asia. In fact, it was the Ottoman Empire that finally toppled the Byzantine Empire in 1453, transforming Constantinople into Istanbul and eliminating the last true Christian power in that region. From that point, Anatolia was undisputedly Islamic.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -1 Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman Empires. The three Islamic empires of the early modern period – the Mughal, the Safavid, and the Ottoman – shared a common Turko-Mongolian heritage. In all three the ruling dynasty was Islamic, the economic system was agrarian, and the military forces were paid in grants of land revenue.

Detailed explanation-6: -Traditional scholarship maintained that the Ottomans’ closer alignment with “Sunni orthodoxy” was the result of the Ottoman conquest of the Arab Muslim territories of Syria and Egypt from the Mamluks in 922–923/1516–1517.