TRUTH ABOUT THE OTTOMAN CALIPHATE!
(an insightful thread)

The Ottoman history has been subjected to a great distortion and propoganda by certain Western orientalists who portrayed the Caliphate as just an empire with salacious Sultans and obscurantist Ulema.

They spread a wrong notion that it was an evil Caliphate which did not deserve a deeper research or study. The stated that the Ottomans killed and raped non-Muslims and carried out massacres. They purposely spread lies so much that the people started to believe them.

There was sadly none to counter this propaganda as the Turkish state under Attaturk was least interested in defending the Ottoman history. Instead the Ottomans were belittled the in order to glorify the new Republic. However if we read authentic Western historians & scholars.

We see that they have greatly praised the Ottoman institution for its administration, institutions, justice, tolerance, diplomacy, and military might. The Ottomans actually ruled by Sharia which gives protection of life, property, and honor to all non-Muslims and...

allows complete freedom of religion. I shall quote a number of prominent Western historians who cleared up Orientalist propaganda by stating the real facts which show the glory of the Ottoman Caliphate. Please read & understand these facts so we can counter the obscurantism.

"It is an undeniable historical fact that the Turkish armies have never interfered with the religious and cultural affairs in the areas they conquered "

~ J. W. Arnold

"Jewish people must always recall the Ottoman Empire with gratitude who, at one of Judaism's darkest hours flung open its door widely and kept them open"

~ Cecil Roth -Historian

"An important testimony to the toleration of Moslem rule is the fact that even persecuted Christian and other sects took refuge in Mohammedan land to enjoy there the undisturbed exercise of their several cults."

~ Felix Valvi, London 925

"The Ottoman Empire would not have lasted for six hundred years... You cannot for six hundred years suppress, subdue or bully a lot of people of different ethnic groups"

~ Prof. Jeffrey Lewis of Oxford
University

"The Ottomans had one of the most tolerant policies towards non-Turks of any empire of its day. The three communities of Jews, Greeks and Armenians were virtually autonomous within the empire."

~ P.F. Peters, The Australian, June 9th 1994

"It is well to remember that when the Crusaders were butchering their Moslem prisoners in Palestine, when the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition were in full swing,
when Cromwell's troopers were massacring the Catholics of Ireland...

when Protestants in France were being exterminated by order of the French king, when Jews were being subjected to countless persecutions and barbarities in every European country...."

..."Moslems, Christians and Jews were dwelling side by side, in perfect amity in Asia Minor"

~ E Alexander Powell, The
Struggle for Power in Moslem Asia, N.Y., 1925, p.120

"The Turks, as a nation, are almost ludicrously innocent of the propagandist's art...The Ottoman institution came perhaps as near as anything in real life could to realizing the ideal of Plato's Republic."

~ Arnold Toynbe

"There was emigration from
independent Greece into the Ottoman Empire, since some Greeks found the Ottoman government more indulgent master than their own Greek government"

~ Roderic H- Davison, a prominent Western historian of the Ottoman Empire.

"The religious toleration of the Ottoman Government was complete and the state never interfered in anyway with what the Christians did or taught in their schools or the churches...It was impossible to
desire more absolute
liberty of worship or
teaehing."

~Gratan Geary

"The tolerance shown to foreign beliefs and hostile faiths by the Ottoman law and Ottoman officials which enabled them to establish their own religious institutions and
to shape their own education
was such that..."

..."the thousand year old Liberty reigning in France in the field of sects and beliefs, dating from the times of the ancient Gaul, could not be compared with it."

(Talcot Williams, Turkey, A World.
Problem of Today, New York,
1922, p 194)

These quotes debunk the lies and horrible propoganda against the Ottoman institution. We should learn & share these facts to propogate the legacy of the great Ottoman state which was the pinnacle of Islamic civilisation and power. May God bless the Souls of all Ottoman Rulers.