WOH 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Young Ottomans, Islamic Modernism, Ulama
Document Summary
Ulama: religious scholars in the ottoman empire. Tanzimat reforms: reorganization/reformist measures: done to provide the economical, social, and legal underpinnings for a strong and newly centralized state. The young ottomans: lower-level officials, military officers, writers, poets, Ottomans? rejecting its materialism journalists who hhad a modern western style education. Islamic modernism: idea that muslim societies needed to embrace western technical and scientific knowledge while rejecting its materialism. Indonesia, west africa, and central asia from falling under the control of christian powers. How was the ottoman state evolving due to such groups as the young: the young ottomans wanted to embrace western knowledge while, they advocated a militantly secular public life, were committed to. What were the outcomes in china and in the ottoman empire: they went from being successful civilizations to unmodernized (cid:498)semi- colonies(cid:499, neither moved up to their old spot in the world with their reforms.
