Özet:

In the Ottoman state, the great messengers and, if necessary, the first residence messengers are sometimes given place to the imam. But the sefaret imam wins real corporate identity in the real man. It occurs in the period of Abdullah. His order was made in 1891. One imam is appointed to the sefarethanes of Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, St. Petersburg and Vienna. The number of officials in the six sefarethanes in the future will rise to seven with the conversion of the Washington sefaret to the embassy. The Sefaret imam was selected by the Council of the Council as a result of the trial. Functional time II. Abdelhamid's persistence was limited to a year. But the first designated names, except for a mandatory exception, II. They remained in their posts until the end of Abdulhamid's reign. The appointment of new imams to the embassy only took place after II. It could be done together with the Constitutional Monarchy. In addition, there are some changes in the appointment of imams. Since embassy imams were deemed insufficient to be only madrasah graduates, care was taken to select them among the graduates of the School of Law. In addition, the task of determining the embassy imams was left to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs instead of the Meşihat Department. Despite the arrangements made in both periods, it cannot be said that the embassy imamate could be placed in its proper place and on a certain basis. Even a serious job description has not been made. It can be said that not only the Sultan of the largest independent Islamic country of the time, but also the Islamic caliph, although they were the only religious officials in Western state capitals, were not useful enough. In some of them, attitudes and behaviors that do not befit a person belonging to the ilmiye class of the period are seen. However, there are also those who wrote scientific works and engaged in important activities. The embassy imamate will disappear with the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, this civil service, which is a part of the embassy chancery, should be accepted as the pioneer of religious officials working abroad within the current Presidency of Religious Affairs.