The Young Ottomans : Turkish critics of the Eastern question in the late nineteenth century

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The Young Ottomans : Turkish critics of the Eastern question in the late nineteenth century

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Turkish critics of the Eastern question in the late nineteenth century

Statement of responsibility

Nazan Çiçek

Creator

• Çiçek, Nazan

Subject

• Turkey -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Turkey -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Eastern question
• Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Turks -- Balkan Peninsula -- History

Language

eng

Summary

The Eastern Question, as it was termed by the European Powers in the nineteenth century, was a debate primarily concerned with the issue of "what to do with the Turk?". The Ottoman Empire had become known as the "sick man of Europe" following its gradual decline since the eighteenth century, and its demise would be highly problematic for the crowned heads of Europe. This unique book focuses on the intellectual and political dynamics of the first Ottoman political opposition in the modern sense, the so-called "Young Ottomans." In the process it narrates an alternative version of the Eastern Question as experienced and told by its Eastern observers and critics. Nazan Cicek shows how an important section of the newly-rising semi-autonomous Ottoman Muslim Turkish intelligentsia in the second half of the nineteenth century effectively answered the alternative question of "what to do with the West?". --

Member of

• Library of Ottoman studies, v. 20

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Provided by publisher

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Library of Ottoman studies

Series volume

v. 20