ISLA 300 Lecture 10: ISLA300 - Tanzimat Reforms (Second Period)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 300
• Professor: Sumeyra Gurbuzel

Document Summary

1: edict of reform (1856) and impacts. General info: the edict was made by the sultan abd lmecid i during the second tanzimat period. It promised equality to all subjects: context: crimean war, where european powers pushed for the rights of christian and minorities in the ottoman empire. *shows how that equality to all subjects was achieved: quote 1: churches and religious building. What is important here is missionary establishment. Protestant missionary orders, and on the ottoman empire"s eastern provinces because licensed to establish their own schools, their own hospitals, which were services that the local population needs: quote 2: against religious discrimination. "as all forms of religion are and shall be freely professed in my domination, no subject of my empire shall be hindered in the exercise of the religion that he professes" No one should be discriminated for its religion, or being from a different religio n.