The Ilmiye is one of four institutions that existed within the Ottoman Osmanli, or ruling class, the other three being the Imperial, or mülkiye institution, the military, or seyfiye institution, and the administrative, or kalemiye institution. The function of the Ilmiye was to propagate the Muslim religion, to ensure that Islamic law, or sharia l...
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(from the article `Ottoman Empire`) ...(kalemiye), institution, organized as the imperial treasury (hazine-i amire), which was in charge of collecting and spending the imperial ... ...major basis for this structure of poetic patronage was the bureaucratization of the ulema. ( Ottoman Empire: Classical Ottoman society and ... [2 relat...
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