ISBN:
1-134-29474-3
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1-280-15767-4
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0-203-48138-0
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (372 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
SOAS/RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Middle East ; 3
Series Statement:
SOAS/RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Middle East.
DDC:
306/.09561
Keywords:
Scholars
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Turkey Social conditions 1288-1918.
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Turkey Economic conditions 1288-1918.
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Turkey Intellectual life 19th century.
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Turkey Civilization.
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Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
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Syria History 1516-1918.
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Albania History 1878-1912.
Abstract:
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 r
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy; Copyright; Contents; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Christian community schools during the Ottoman reform period9 Levantine state muftis: An Ottoman legacy?; 10 The Albanian students of the Mekteb-i Mülkiye: Social networks and trends of thought; Appendix; Index
Note:
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
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English
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