%0 Journal Article
%T The Assignment of Mehmet Vecih to the Philippines as Shaykh al-Islam Deputy on the Request of the United States (1913)
%A Hasan Tš¹rker
%J -
%D 2018
%X The United States, founded in the late eighteenth century with anti-colonial ideas, became a colonial state with the territories it acquired from outside of its mainland at the end of the nineteenth century. The United States has tried to treat the religious beliefs and traditions respectfully to its people in its colonies by following a method different from the previous colonists in the territories it seized. The United States opened schools, hospitals, charities and gave jobs to the unemployed. But in the Philippines, where The United States seized from Spain, the Muslim people who lived in Mindanao and called Moro, did not submit to these new masters and resisted them with the concern that the United States would continue to treat them just like Spain. The United States interests can be achieved by winning Moros and the only way to this is winning them with religion, John P. Finley managed to convince his government in early 1913. He went to Istanbul with a letter from Morean religious leaders he had received earlier. The aim was to get support from the Ottoman State and help the people of Moro to accept The United States sovereignty, with the help of a religious officer. This work is about John P. Finley The United States¡¯s governor of Zamboanga coming to Istanbul with a duty entitled ¡°Philippines Muslim People Deputy Absolute¡± and requesting a religious officer to the province which has been accepted. And the government is sending Seyit Mehmet Vecih Efendi to Philippines. This research was based on the collection of the Prime Minister¡¯s Ottoman Archive, a collection of the newspaper Tasvir-i Efkar, which published Mehmet Vecih Efendi¡¯s impressions in the Philippines and his letters from the Philippines
%K Me£¿ihat
%K Mehmet Vecih Efendi
%K John Park Finley
%K Filipinler ve Osmanl£¿ Devleti
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/egetid/issue/41611/502717