The Ottoman schools and their impact on the development of the intellectual movement in the country

Abstract

The Ottoman schools played a central role in the formation of the collective mind of the thought and curriculum of the Ottoman Empire, and the research discussed the history of these schools since their inception, ascent, and then decline, and the research was divided into an introduction, a research summary, three topics and a conclusion. The first topic came under the title of the Ottoman schools from inception until the era of Muhammad al-Fateh, and the second topic was titled the development of the Ottoman schools from the era of al-Fateh until the era of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The third topic dealt with the development of the Ottoman schools in the legal era, then their decline and backwardness in the era of weakness and the stagnation and decline that befell them and the reasons for that until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1924.