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Beginning with the Tanzimat and extending to the
Young Turk Revolution, this course enables the
students to learn and engage with the fundamental
concepts and ideas of Ottoman intellectuals in the long
nineteenth century. The transformations in the principle
of political legitimacy, the relation between liberty and
security, constitutionalism, parliamentarism, positivism,
radicalism, conservatism, the concept of modern
empire, and the demand for gender and legal equality:
all these and more will form the content of this course.
By focusing on prominent as well as female and
“neglected” voices and primary texts in Ottoman
intellectual history, this course aims to democratise
and broaden the field of Ottoman political thought in
particular and global intellectual history in general.
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