Constantinople and returned from the memory of the Islamic conquests to the trend in Egypt and the Arab world, after a publication from the Egyptian Dar al-Iftaa raised controversy over the city that turned after the Ottoman conquest to Istanbul.
The angry response to what the fatwa department said came quickly and powerfully through social media platforms by Egyptian and Arab activists, who interacted by marking the historical name of the Turkish city "Constantinople", which forced the Egyptian fatwa department to back down from what I mentioned.
The Fatwa Department has published a report on its website. In the context of the attack on the Turkish President and his accusation of politicizing religious fatwas and using mosque mosques with electoral propaganda, she said that the issue of converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque was raised decades ago, but it remained a tool and a propaganda weapon in the hands of politicians in their campaigns to attract voters, especially religious ones.
"Hagia Sophia was built as a church during the Byzantine era in 537 AD, and it remained so for 916 years until the Ottomans occupied Istanbul in 1453, and they turned the building into a mosque," the department went on.
The eighth bulletin, “Your publication”, spotted some angry tweets about what came in the Egyptian Fatwa report, and among these tweets was one of the former Director General of ISESCO Abdel Aziz Al-Tuwaijri, in which he said, “The Mufti of Egypt says that Fatah # Constantinople was an occupation. And the noble hadith says ( Let Constantinople be blessed, and the prince may have blessed her prince, and, yes, that army) disagreed as you like but do not falsify history.
As for the Secretary General of the Union of Muslim Scholars d. Ali al-Qarra Dagi commented, "Describing the conquest of Constantinople as an Ottoman occupation is a serious decline, degeneration, debauchery, and a stigma in the brow of the Ifta House of Egypt. The Messenger وصف described this conquest, and he said:" The prince is her prince and the grace of the army is that army. "This farce is evidence of the politicization of all religious institutions. In Egypt to serve the coup! ".
As for Turkish political analyst Hamza Tekin, he said, "To the Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa .. Regardless of everything, we concede that Muhammad Al-Fatih (occupied) Constantinople, as you say, is Amr bin Al-Aas (occupied) Egypt? .. If yes ... you are stabbing the Prophet directly." And, if not, then the Prophet approved with both gestures, conquered Egypt and conquered Constantinople, and not one of them, and therefore you are liars.
In turn, the Egyptian journalist Gamal Sultan commented, "Believe it or not, the Egyptian Ifta House publishes a statement today describing the Muslims’ conquest of Constantinople as (the Ottoman occupation), imagining that this is a political dissent in Erdogan, and my pen and tongue are unable to comment and God !! ”.
The angry tweets campaign against the Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa did not lead her to delete or amend the report published on the site, but she retracted her description about Istanbul in a post on her official Facebook page saying: "We have repeatedly confirmed documents, indicators and evidence that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to use the fatwa to install Tyranny at home in the name of religion and justification of his ambitions abroad in the name of the alleged caliphate. "
Then she added, "As for the conquest of Constantinople, it is a great Islamic conquest by which the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, preached, and it was carried out by the great Ottoman Sufi Sultan Muhammad al-Fateh, but Erdogan has no connection with Muhammad al-Fatih."