Today marks 69 years since Shaykh ul-Islām Mustafā Sabrī Effendī, the last Shaykh ul-Islām of the Ottoman Empire, l…
Today marks 69 years since Shaykh ul-Islām Mustafā Sabrī Effendī, the last Shaykh ul-Islām of the Ottoman Empire, left this world. He was one of Islām’s pre-eminent scholars and thinkers of the 20th century. When the Caliphate fell into the hands of the secular Kemalist government with Atatürk coming into power, a huge crackdown was … Read more