Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh

Yıl 2006, Sayı: 15, 204 - 210, 01.01.2006

Abdulhamit Kırmızı

Öz

This collection of twelve essays is concerned, in the words of the editors, “with the centre-periphery and state-Islam cleavages during the long nineteenth century of Ottoman attempts at regeneration and reform” (p.3). The volume makes a contribution to the ongoing reassessment to the era, which presents late Ottoman history from an approach of continuum between traditional and modern aspects, instead of a dichotomist understanding. The new emphasis is on the inner processes of change undertaken by a complex society instead of an exaggerated influence of Western actors. I see this substantial shift as a consequence of our zeitgeist, which has taught many historians not to see the world from within the cages of actual political settings, like that of the Cold War.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Ottoman reform, Ottoman history, Muslim regeneration

Kaynakça

• Weismann, Itzchak and Fruma Zachs (ed.), Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh, London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.