The Proposed Political, Legal, and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and Other Mohammadan States

The Proposed Political, Legal, and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and Other Mohammadan States
By Cheragh Ali

First published in Bombay in 1883, this ambitious work of legal and political reform argues that constitutional government, codified law, and social modernization are fully compatible with Islamic principles. Written by a close associate of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and a leading voice of the Aligarh movement, it offers a detailed reformist blueprint for the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim states of the period.

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Excerpt

The following pages were written on the perusal of an article entitled “Are Reforms Possible under Mussulman Rule?” by the Rev. Mr. Malcolm MacColl in the Contemporary Review of August 1881, in the last quarter of the same year, and are now published for the information of those European and Anglo-Indian writers who, I am sorry to remark, suffer under a delusion that Islam is incapable of any political, legal or social reforms.

It is very unbecoming of English writers to be so ill-informed on a topic of vital interest to England. The British Empire is the greatest Mohammadan Power in the world, i.e., the Queen of England, as Empress of India, rules over more Mohammadans than any sovereign, not excepting His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey.