Reasons For The Decline Of The Ottoman Empire

What went wrong with Ottoman Empire? Decline period of the Ottoman Empire is always debated. While some scholars are saying there is no declining period others argue the opposite. We can say that Mustafa Ali is one of the advocator of thought that there was a decline in 16th and 17th century in the Ottoman state. Mustafa Ali is also one of the scholar who tried to analyze this period. He wrote the Counsels for Sultan like observer but was he really observer or did he wrote all these analyses and critics by adding his own thoughts? I think he cannot be just observer because he added his own thoughts as Kafadar said the composition of Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali, an author with his own personal and political agenda.’’ Mustafa Ali mentioned the reasons of the decline in the Ottoman state. He generally adverted the corruption in the social, military and economic organizations. However, when he evaluated all these organizations he always criticized the ruling class. He reflected ulema as ignorant, greed and incapable people. He mentioned that ulema’s eyes had always higher offices and they could do everything to take the rank and those who had the higher position with their ability they were dismissed from the office. He thought that the ability ones cannot reach any …show more content…
Some ideas could be debatable such as how unqualified the learning establishment because he could have perceived them as ignorance. However, he also mentioned the good sides of the age of Süleyman but in the late part of his reign the roots of corruption began to spread all around the Ottoman Empire. Therefore, people used the corrupted ones to take what they want but for this they had to have money to feed them so judges took bribes and high or low officials tried to find the easy way of earning