Spiritual Practices of Sultan Muhammad Al-Fatih as an Islamic-Based Development (Ibd) Actor

Abstract

This paper aims to study about Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih’s spiritual practices as an Islamic-based development (IBD) actor during his time as Turki Uthmaniah leader. Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih lead Turki Uthmaniah at young age which is 22 years old. Even though he is a young leader, he and his army team succeed in fulfill hadith Prophet Muhammad SAW about the conquest of Constantinople which become all previous Islamic leader’s wishes. He also has known with his steadfast on spiritual practices since his matured (baligh) time though he is responsible with many commitments as Turki Uthmaniah leader. Therefore, are spiritual practices important in implement the development and achieve the successful? Three objectives are built in this study which is to discover the spiritual practices of Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih, to analyze Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih’s spiritual practices on IBD and lastly to summarize Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih’s spiritual practices on IBD. Document review and content analysis are used for collect and analyze the data respectively. In a nutshell, this paper found the spiritual practices are important and give a big impact on the victory and glory in a development. Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih’s spiritual practices are divided into two which is basic spiritual practices and virtue spiritual practices. These spiritual practices contributed to develop his spiritual aspect which presents his good akhlak and personality. Moreover, the involvement of spiritual practices in implementation of development may produce a comprehensive and holistic development which covered all aspect of human lives.