1255 AH
The Ottoman government proclaims the Tanzimat, the reordering: one law for Muslims and non-Muslims, with new courts, schools and a new army.
How it touches Islam It opened a debate among Muslim scholars and statesmen, still alive today, on how to modernise without losing the sharia.
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