Political Fatwas and their Impact on the Decisions and Practices of Authority in the Second Mamluk Period 784-923E-1382-1517

Abstract

The state in the second Mamluk  period (784-923H\1382-1517A.C) was face several of foreign dangers, as well as it was busy with hard interior  rebels and confusion ,so the politician authority was need for support to depend on to take the decisions and decree the instructions to treat with that events. The sultans and princes had found this support from Ulama and clergymen ,so they adherenced to be close of them in order to attraction and try to please them, because they know well their power and direct influencing on people , so they want them to be as cooperators' to execute their decisions, meanwhile ,they got a theory of politeness the Ulama and legists' fatwa to serve their advantages  in order to cover their decisions and behaves with legality in front people to show for the people that these decrees were built upon legality .the research focus on study those fatwas which had appointed and adjusted to serve the political issues.