For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire allowed each religious - TopicsExpress



          

For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire allowed each religious group within its borders to live and be judged by their own religious laws. Christians, Jews, and others were not to be prosecuted according to Islamic law. This system ended in the 1800s when it was replaced by a secular law code based on French law , which ended up creating religious and ethnic tensions that did not exist before. lostislamichistory/non-muslim-rights-in-the-ottoman-empire/
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:26:58 +0000

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