Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual LegacyRoutledge, 2013 M03 7 - 368 pages When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a truly multi-ethnic society. Modernization not only brought market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power, but also new educational institutions as well as new ideologies. Thus new ideologies developed and nationalism emerged, which became a political reality when the Empire reached its end. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Ottoman sources of Kemalist thought | 14 |
Late Ottoman materialists on science religion and art | 28 |
3 Whom did Ahmed Cevdet represent? | 117 |
4 Women in Late Ottoman intellectual history | 135 |
Ulema as opposition | 162 |
The rhetoric of Muslim unity and its uses | 201 |
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Abdülhamid Abdülhamid II Abdullah Cevdet active administrative training Ahmed Nebil Ahmet Ankara appointed kaymakam Arabic Armenian Baha Tevfik Balkan became Beşir Fu'ad Büchner Bukhara Bulgarian caliphate Çankaya concept criticism cultural Djevdet Eastern Anatolia Efendi elite European Felsefe Frashëri French Gjirokastër Greek Guyau Haeckel Hamidian Hanioğlu Hilmi Ibid İctihad idadi school ideas ideology important Ioannina Islam İsmail Istanbul journal kaymakam Kemal Kemalist Kütübhanesi language late Ottoman Leskovik Matbaası materialism Mehmed Mekteb-i Mülkiye modern Mufti Muslim Mustafa mutessarif nationalism nationalist nineteenth century non-Muslim Orthodox Osmanlı Ottoman administration Ottoman capital Ottoman Empire Ottoman intellectual Ottoman materialists Ottoman society pamphlet pan-Islamism Paris Paşa philosophy poetry political Press published reform regime religion religious role rüştiye school scientific secular Shahin Kolonja social studied sultan Ta'rih Tanzimat Tertib-i Cedid tion translation Türk Turkey Turkish ulema vilayet Vlora Vulgärmaterialismus Western women write Young Turk Revolution