The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908

The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908
Author: Selçuk Akşin Somel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789004119031

This first comprehensive study on Ottoman educational reform is based on archival material and providing new information on curricular policies applied in the provinces and toward different ethnic groups.

The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire 1839-1908

The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire 1839-1908
Author: Selçuk Aksin Somel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004492313

The aim of the Ottoman educational reforms was to raise a class of educated bureaucrats as a means of administrative centralization, and a design to inculcate authoritarian and religious values among the population for the legitimization of state authority. This study, which deals with the modernization of Ottoman public education during the period of reform, is based on sources such as Ottoman archives, published documents, textbooks, and memoirs. It discusses the main factors that led to Ottoman educational reforms. The topics in this volume include the expansion of provincial education, financial policies, curricular issues, the educational ideology of the Tanzimat (1839-1876) and the Hamidian periods (1878-1908), ethnic groups in the Balkans, Anatolia and Arabia, and the process of socialization. The book particularly addresses those readers interested in the educational, social and administrative history of the late Ottoman period.

Imperial Classroom

Imperial Classroom
Author: Benjamin C. Fortna
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199248407

'Imperial Classroom deserves our attention on several counts, the most important being its innovatory approach, systematic presentation and the large variety of sources consulted to good effect... well-documented and very readable... this scholarly book should be read not only by those studying late Ottoman education, but by all those interested in the period of Abdülhamid II.' -Middle Eastern StudiesThis book presents a many-sided view of education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century under the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide array of primary material, ranging from archival reports to textbooks and classroom maps, Benjamin C. Fortna provides a detailed scholarly analysis of the Ottoman educational endeavour, revealing its fascinating mix of Western and indigenous influences.

Empire and Education under the Ottomans

Empire and Education under the Ottomans
Author: Emine O. Evered
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2012-05-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857721860

Once hailed as 'the eternal state', the Ottoman Empire was in decline by the end of the nineteenth century, finally collapsing under the pressures of World War I. Yet its legacies are still apparent, and few have had more impact than those of its schools and educational policies. "Empire and Education under the Ottomans" analyses the Empire's educational politics from the mid-nineteenth century, amidst the Tanzimat reform period, until "The Young Turk Revolution in 1908". Through a focus on the regional impact of decrees from Istanbul, Emine O. Evered unravels the complexities of the era, demonstrating how educational changes devised to strengthen the Empire actually hastened its demise. This book is the first history of education in the Ottoman Middle East to evaluate policies in the context of local responses and resistance, and includes the first published English translation of the watershed 1869 Ottoman Education Law. A stimulating and impressively-researched study, it represents an important new addition to the historiography of the Ottoman Empire and will be essential for those researching its lasting legacy.

The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908

The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908
Author: Gökhan Çetinsaya
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134294956

This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringing together and analyzing an abundance of complex documents, this book is a fascinating contribution to the field of Middle Eastern studies.

Robert College of Constantinople

Robert College of Constantinople
Author: Nick Petrov
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2023-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1666921750

Robert College of Constantinople is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside the borders of the United States. The history of the College includes 160 years of originality, innovations and astonishing development that impacted the history of Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, the Ottoman Empire and the United States of America.

Becoming Ottomans

Becoming Ottomans
Author: Julia Phillips Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199340412

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this book, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision were doing so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to become imperial citizens, to consider their neighbors as brothers and their empire as a homeland. Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the imperial state reforms known as the Tanzimat, which spanned the years 1839-1876 and legally emancipated the non-Muslims of the empire. Four decades later the situation was difficult to recognize. By the close of the nineteenth century, Ottoman Muslims and Jews alike regularly referred to Jews as a model community, or millet-as a group whose leaders and members knew how to serve their state and were deeply engaged in Ottoman politics. The struggles of different Jewish individuals and groups to define the public face of their communities is underscored in their responses to a series of important historical events. Charting the dramatic reversal of Jews in the empire over a half-century, Becoming Ottomans offers new perspectives for understanding Jewish encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing, modernizing Islamic state in an imperial, multi-faith landscape.

Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire

Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
Author: Ga ́bor A ́goston
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2010-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438110251

Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the empire that once encompassed large parts of the modern-day Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.

Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire

Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire
Author: Selcuk Aksin Somel
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2003-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0810866064

Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.