Western Hats Are Not Permissible According to Sunni Scholars

I noticed a video showing young students finishing a course on memorizing al-Qur'an al-Karîm. I was saddened to see that the students were wearing western hats. All of these hats were forbidden in widely-used classical texts written or adopted by Sunni scholars in the Osmanlı (Ottoman) times. I will give pictures from books written at different dates and will provide translations at a suitable time.

The following is from Kâdîzâde Ahmed Efendi [Qadizada Ahmad Afandi] (d. 1783), Birgivî Vasiyetnamesi Kâdîzâde Şerhi [Birgivî Will and Testament Kâdîzâde Commentary], Bedir Yayınevi [Bedir Publishing], Istanbul 1988, p.200:

The translation of the relevant part:

(If a woman ties a black rope around her waist and says, "This rope is a zunnar," she becomes a disbeliever and her husband becomes forbidden to her, they have said). They have said that wearing things specific to disbelievers, such as clothing, is an act of disbelief. Like wearing a zunnar or a hat. According to the hadith, which states, "Whoever resembles a people is one of them," based on this principle, the ruling of the group she resembles applies to her as well due to her imitation.

Note: Zunnar is "A coarse, hard belt made of rope or hair, with the ends hanging down in front, which priests tie around their waists."

From the famous basic aqida and fiqh book Miftahu'l-Janna known as "Mızraklı İlmihal" and widely distributed and read during the Osmanlı (Ottoman) times:

Here "şapka" means hat, it is a Turkish word used for all the western hats (hats customarily used by non-Muslims) shown in the pictures above. The importance of this book is, it has been very widely used by the people, and distributed and approved by ulama [scholars] and the state in the Osmanlı [Ottoman] lands over several centuries.

Additional documents and translations will be provided inshaallah in due time.