This author is a professor of late Ottoman history at Princeton University, holding a position there since 2005. Their academic work delves into the thoughts and activities of Abdullah Cevdet, a foundational figure in the Young Turk movement. With a profound understanding of the political and intellectual currents of the late Ottoman era, their writing illuminates the formative period of the modern Turkish Republic.
When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science. This book provides a look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. This title offers a history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, which were... číst celé