Madrasah:
Is derived from the Semitic root (dars) which relates to lesson, learning, and studying.
Madrasah then literally means a place where learning or studying of the lesson happens.
The first Ottoman "Medrese" was created in Iznik in 1331.
Most Ottoman medreses followed the traditions of sunni Islam.
Ottoman Madrasahs offered different branches of study, such as calligraphic sciences, oral sciences, and intellectual sciences but they primarily served the function of an Islamic center for spiritual learning.
"The goal of all knowledge and in particular, of the spiritual sciences is knowledge of God." Halil Inalcik
"Religious learning as the only true science, whose sole aim was the understanding of God's word." Halil Inalcik
Education system:
The Ottoman education system seems followed a linear, structured, fashion with different kinds of schools attached to different kinds of levels. There were the lower madrasahs and then the specialized ones.
Curriculum:*
A) Calligraphic sciences: styles of writing
B) Oral sciences: Arabic language, grammar and syntax
C) Intellectual sciences—logic in Islamic philosophy
D) Theoretical Spiritual sciences: Islamic theology and mathematics
E) Practical Spiritual science: Islamic ethics and politics
* From Halil Inalcik
Religion, schools, and social life:
Madrasahs were built around, or near mosques, revealing the interconnectedness between institutions of learning and religion, with religion dominating much of the knowledge and teachings. The mosques to which medresahs were attached, dominated the social life in Ottoman cities.
Culture of sharing and co-learning
The Islamic world (Egypt, Persia and Turkestan) was interconnected in the early modern period (1453-1789) as scholars traveled around and abroad to other Islamic states exchanging knowledge and receive education from each other.
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