HIST 151 Lecture Notes - Hejaz Railway, Caliphate, The Young Turks
19 Nov 2012
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The last great sultan of the ottoman empire. He faced a hole raft of challenges as he assumed power: not least of which was the growing military threat that the. Ottoman empire faced from abroad: to deal with these challenges abdul hamid developed a quite a distinctive strategy of rule. Perhaps the central feature of this strategy was an emphasis on his islamic credential, on his status as an. The institution what was called the khalifait the central to abdul hamid notion of his rule as. He viewed him selves as the leader of all. And thereby, was in a sense reviving the institution of the khalifait which , of course, have played a very significant roll in islamic history over many centuries. But during the period of the tanzimat had some what waned its importance. And so this reemphasis on the khailafit was a departure.
