Late Ottoman Society

The Intellectual Legacy

Elisabeth Özdalga

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134294732
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Ottoman sources of Kemalist thought
• 2 Blueprints for a future society: late Ottoman materialists on science, religion, and art
• 3 Whom did Ahmed Cevdet represent?
• 4 Women in late Ottoman intellectual history
• 5 Turban and fez: ulema as opposition
• 6 Pan-Islamism in practice: the rhetoric of Muslim unity and its uses
• 7 ‘Kütüp ve Resail-i Mevkute’: printing and publishing in a multi-ethnic society
• 8 Christian community schools during the Ottoman reform period
• 9 Levantine state muftis: an Ottoman legacy?
• 10 Albanian students of the Mekteb-i Mülkiye: social networks and trends of thought
• Appendix: Biographies of Albanian students of the Mekteb-i Mülkiye
• Index