History Of Development Of Islam In Turkey

 Photo Development Of Islam In Turkey

Islam is the largest religion in Turkey. Since the days of Ottoman Turkey in 1400 over the followers of Islam in Turkey more and more. Now approximately 99.8% of the population of Turkey is Muslim, most are Sunni Muslims in Turkey with 70-80%, the rest are Alevis and Shia by 20-30%. There are also followers of Twelver with 3%.

  Photo Development Of Islam In Turkey

Ottoman Era In the year 1453 when the Ottoman Empire began in Turkey.Islam dominate Turkey. Chapel increasingly dominant in the churches in Turkey, which is including the Hagia Sophia Byzantine remainder. many converted into mosque.Islam become very dominant until the 1920s.

Modern Era When the Ottoman Empire collapsed and was succeeded by the Republic of Turkey in 1923.Islam be a little backwards because of changes in Turkey from empire to be country-emblem emblems secular. Ataturk Islam prohibits and provides flexibility in non-Islamic religion.

The other effect is the commencement of usage of CE Calendar like country-western countries than Hijriyah. and Calendar Tanri usage rather than God's word, then Hagia Sophia, which changed again to the museum, the banning of Islamic teaching, and restricted the number of mosques.

Syeikh Muhammad Abduh

At the time of the Reformation on 1945. After palliation Turkey authoritarian political control in 1946, many people began to call openly for the return to traditional religious practices. During the 1950s, even certain political leaders was wise to join in the advocacy of religious leaders to respect religious. Inevitably, the reintroduction of religion into the school curriculum raised the question of religious higher education. The secular elite, who tend not to believe in traditional religious leaders, believed that Muslims could be "reformed" if future leaders were trained in government-controlled seminary. To further this goal, the government in 1949 established a faculty of divinity at Ankara University to train teachers of Islam and the imams. In 1951 the government founded the Democratic Party of special secondary schools (imam okullari HATIP) for the training of priests and pastors. Initially, the school priest HATIP grow very slowly, but their numbers were growing rapidly to more than 250 in the 1970s, when pro-Islamic National Salvation Party participated in coalition governments. After the 1980 coup, the military, although secular in orientation, religion is seen as an effective way to counter socialist ideas and thus the basic building ninety more imam HATIP high school.