Osmanlı Medreselerini Islah Çabaları Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
An Evaluation on Reform Attempts in Ottoman Madrasahs

Summary/Abstract: Madrasahs which set ground for Ottoman education system are institutions provided important services for both government and the society approximately six centuries throughout its institutional existence. It is quite predictable that reforms are made due to unsystematic implementations and occasionally occurred problems in Madrasahs which are established and expanded based on needs of muslim community, which was a key factor of state organisation and the empire. The abundance of academic studies which had maintained it for three centuries by accepting irregular implementations and problems, that is the reason of reform activities, as a start of impairment and regression are noticeable. To link impairment and regression with an event occurred in the past, and to discuss six century long aquis by tearing apart from its context and approach as it is an independent piece, moreover, to make comparison and evaluation over non-equivalent educational institutes are preventing approaches for good results. In this article, needs of reform in Ottoman madrasahs which had six century long past, reform attempts and its results, whether impairment and regression are originated from structural matters, and how far implementers are effective in impairment and regression are evaluated and discussed. The aim of this article, which was prepared by scanning archives and scientific studies of said period, is to make sound evaluations about Ottoman madrasahs. In this context, contrary to widespread narratives, it is revealed that within the periodical context, madrasahs and those affined with them exhibited attitudes open to change and development.

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