MESAS 200W Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Selim Iii, Wahhabism, Janissaries
1 Apr 2019
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Control of vast territorial empire difficulty controlling their provinces. Conquests in 17th and 18th century with suleyman the magnificent put into a complex system with local governors wito reported to ottoman ruling house in. Such as janissaries gaining their own say and becoming a state within a state of their own. Jurists also becoming more power and challenging the power of the sultan. Ottoman state economy is based on agricultural revenue, tax and trade. New classes of people but state suffering - the one that was really suffering was the state not necessarily other actors, such as rebels and rogues. Westernization of ottoman state - reforms in response to the challenges above. Selim iii (1789-1807) - proclaimed the nizam-i cedid (the new order) Military and political reforms while retaining older institutions and social forces ( still based on an acceptance traditional norms ) Didnt quite work and he was deposed. Abolished the janissaries in the auspicious event .
