Mustafa Sabri

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Mustafa Sabri was a prominent late Ottoman scholar and the last officially recognized Shaykh al-Islam, known for his staunch opposition to secular reforms in Turkey.

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instanceOf Islamic scholar
Ottoman official
Shaykh al-Islam
person
areaOfInfluence Ottoman religious institutions NERFINISHED
Sunni scholarly circles in the late Ottoman era
countryOfCitizenship Ottoman Empire
denomination Sunni Islam
era early Turkish Republican period
late Ottoman period
familyName Sabri NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Islamic jurisprudence
Islamic theology
political thought
givenName Mustafa NERFINISHED
historicalContext collapse of the Ottoman Empire
rise of the Turkish Republic
historicalSignificance symbol of religious opposition to Turkish secularization
ideology Islamic traditionalism
anti-secularism
influenced later Islamist and traditionalist thinkers
influencedBy classical Sunni scholarship
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED
movement late Ottoman religious establishment
name Mustafa Sabri NERFINISHED
notableFor criticism of Kemalist ideology
opposition to secular reforms in Turkey
notableRole leading religious authority in the final years of the Ottoman Empire
occupation Islamic scholar
jurist
politician
theologian
opposed abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate
secular reforms in the early Turkish Republic
positionHeld Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
last officially recognized Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire
religion Islam
title Shaykh al-Islam NERFINISHED
‘Allama NERFINISHED
view advocated preservation of Islamic law in governance
criticized Westernization policies in Turkey
rejected separation of religion and state in Muslim societies

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Nazli Sabri familyName Mustafa Sabri
this entity surface form: Sabri
Shaykh al-Islam hasNotableBearer Mustafa Sabri