Was the ottoman empire under sharia law?
Hello, Pratically speaking no; the Ottoman empire was blamed for westernizing the middle east. In the 18th century she realized that technically speaking with respect to the military she was falling behind the west and had to play catchup. The empire adopted therefore a lot of western customs from dress to socializing and brought in European advisers in droves who in turn influenced the societies. This liberalism spread all over her big empire in a short time. Some of the more conservative radical groups say this westernization upset Allah whose children were drifting away from the fundamentals of the Quran and hence he punished them by allowing humiliating defeats and colonization by the west.
