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{{short description|Ottoman Empire reform period (1839-1876)}}{{more footnotes needed|date=September 2016}}{{multiple image| total_width = 280px| perrow = 1/2/2/1| border = infobox| image1 = Fez.jpg| image2 = Flag of Turkey.svg| image3 = Istanbul_asv2020-02_img60_Ortaköy_Mosque.jpg| image4 = Haydarpasa_campus_general.jpg| align = right| caption1 = The Fez cap| caption2 = the modern Flag of Turkey| caption3 = the Ortaköy Mosque| caption4 = and Marmara University were all developed and introduced during the reforms of the Tanzimat}}{{History of the Ottoman Empire sidebar |Timeline=Timeline of Tanzimat}}The {{Transliteration|ota|Tanzimat}}{{efn|Currently, in French, the word “Tanzimat” is used as a plural, as in “Les Tanzimat”. At the time, when French was a common language for the educated in the empire, the word was often treated in the singular, as “Le Tanzimat”.BOOK, Strauss, Johann,menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/menalib/download/pdf/2734659?originalFilename=true, The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 2010, Herzog, Christoph, Würzburg, 21â51, A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the Kanun-ı Esasi and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages, Malek Sharif, For why French is important, see Languages of the Ottoman Empire}} ({{IPA-tr|tanziËmat|lang}}; , see (wikt:nizam#Turkish|nizam)) was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Gülhane Hatt-ı Åerif in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.{{sfn|Cleveland|Bunton|2012|p=82}} The Tanzimat era began with the purpose not of radical transformation, but of modernization, desiring to consolidate the social and political foundations of the Ottoman Empire.THESIS, Guler, Emre, Masculinities In Early Turkish Republican Novels (1924-1951), 2014, MA, Istanbul Bilgi University, {{better source needed|date=January 2021}} It was characterised by various attempts to modernise the Ottoman Empire and to secure its territorial integrity against internal nationalist movements and external aggressive powers. The reforms encouraged Ottomanism among the diverse ethnic groups of the Empire and attempted to stem the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire.Historian Hans-Lukas Kieser has argued that the reforms led to “the rhetorical promotion of equality of non-Muslims with Muslims on paper vs. the primacy of Muslims in practice”; other historians have argued that the decreased ability of non-Muslims to assert their legal rights during this period led to the land seizure and emigration.JOURNAL, Maksudyan, Nazan, review of This Is a Man’s World?: On Fathers and Architects: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, Journal of Genocide Research, 2019, 21, 4, 540â544, 10.1080/14623528.2019.1613816, 181910618, Part of the reform policy was an economic policy based on the Treaty of Balta Liman of 1838. Many changes were made to improve civil liberties, but many Muslims saw them as a foreign influence on the world of Islam. That perception complicated reformist efforts made by the state.BOOK, Roderic, H. Davison, Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923 â The Impact of the West, University of Texas Press, 1990, 115â116, During the Tanzimat period, the government’s series of constitutional reforms led to a fairly modern conscripted army, banking system reforms, the replacement of religious law with secular lawWEB, The Tanzimat: Secular reforms in the Ottoman Empire,faith-matters.org/images/stories/fm-publications/the-tanzimat-final-web.pdf, Ishtiaq, Hussain, Faith Matters, and guilds with modern factories. The Ottoman Ministry of Post was established in Istanbul on 23 October 1840.WEB, PTT Chronology,www.ptt.gov.tr/tr/kurumsal/tarihce.html, 13 September 2008, PTT Genel MüdürlüÄü, tr, dead,www.ptt.gov.tr/tr/kurumsal/tarihce.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20080913233443www.ptt.gov.tr/tr/kurumsal/tarihce.html,">web.archive.org/web/20080913233443www.ptt.gov.tr/tr/kurumsal/tarihce.html, 13 September 2008, 11 February 2013, WEB, History of the Turkish Postal Service,www.ptt.gov.tr/index.snet?wapp=histor_en&open=1, Ptt.gov.tr, 6 November 2011, - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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The reforms emerged from the minds of reformist sultans like Mahmud II ({{Reign|1808|1839}}), his son Abdulmejid I ({{Reign|1839|1861}}) and prominent, often European-educated bureaucrats, who recognised that the old religious and military institutions no longer met the needs of the empire. Most of the symbolic changes, such as uniforms, were aimed at changing the mindset of imperial administrators. Many of the officials affiliated with the government were encouraged to wear a more western style of dress. Many of the reforms were attempts to adopt successful European practices. The reforms were heavily influenced by the Napoleonic Code and French law under the Second French Empire as a direct result of the increasing number of Ottoman students being educated in France. Changes included the elimination of the devshirme system of conscription in favour of universal conscription; educational, institutional and legal reforms; and systematic attempts at eliminating political corruption.Also, a policy called Ottomanism was meant to unite all the different peoples living in Ottoman territories, “Muslim and non-Muslim, Turkish and Greek, Armenian and Jewish, Kurd and Arab”. The policy officially began with the Edict of Gülhane of 1839, declaring equality before the law for both Muslim and non-Muslim Ottomans.JOURNAL, Deringil, Selim, The Invention of Tradition as Public Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808 to 1908, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1993, 35, 1, 3â29, 10.1017/S0010417500018247, 145056061, (Jan. 1993), pp. 3-29{{Gallery|title=Examples of dress reform|width=251height=251|align=center | File:Mehmet cemil.jpg|Diplomat Mehmed Cemil Bey wearing a frock coat and a bow tie. | Necip Ahmed Pasha, career officer and composer in French-inspired uniform. | Governor Rahmi Bey | Mehmed Galip Bey Efendi | Gülüstü Hanım | Åayeste Hanım}}MotivesThe ambitious project was launched to combat the slow decline of the empire that had seen its borders shrink and its strength wane in comparison to the European powers. There were both internal and external reasons for the reforms.The primary purpose of the Tanzimat was to reform the military by modernizing and taking inspiration from European armies. The traditional Ottoman army, the Janissaries, had fallen from grace in terms of military prestige and a European-inspired reconstruction was a necessary change to be made.JOURNAL, Kawtharani, Wajih, April 2018, The Ottoman Tanzimat and the Constitution,www.jstor.org/stable/10.31430/almuntaqa.1.1.0051, AlMuntaqa, 1, 1, 51â65, 10.31430/almuntaqa.1.1.0051, 10.31430/almuntaqa.1.1.0051, JSTOR, The Ottoman Empire consisted of a multitude of different cultures and the secondary priorities of the Tanzimat reforms were aimed at balancing the social structure that previously favoured Muslim subjects. Another vital section of these reforms was the abolishment of Ä°ltizam, or land-tenure agreements.JOURNAL, AytekiÌn, AttiÌla, August 2012, Peasant Protest in the Late Ottoman Empire: Moral Economy, Revolt, and the Tanzimat Reforms,shibbolethsp.jstor.org/start?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fwebso.iup.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth&dest=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26394516&site=jstor, International Review of Social History, 57, 2, 191â257, 10.1017/S0020859012000193, 145729675, JSTOR, free, Internally, the Ottoman Empire hoped that abolishing the millet system would create a more centralized government, as well as increased legitimacy of the Ottoman rule, thus gaining direct control of its citizens. Another major hope was that being more open to various demographics would attract more people into the empire. There was fear of internal strife between Muslims and non-Muslims, and allowing more religious freedom to all was supposed to diminish this threat. Giving more rights to the Christians within the empire was considered likely to reduce the danger of outside intervention on their behalf.Although the motives for the implementation of Tanzimât were bureaucratic, it was impulsed by liberal ministers and intellectuals like Dimitrios Zambakos Pasha, Kabuli Mehmed Pasha, the secret society of the Young Ottomans,BOOK, Lindgren, Allana,books.google.com/books?id=YFvLCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA440, The Modernist World, Ross, Stephen, 2015, Routledge, 978-1-317-69616-2, 6 May 2017, BOOK, Yapp, Malcolm,books.google.com/books?id=1IkcBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA119, The Making of the Modern Near East 1792-1923, 9 January 2014, Routledge, 978-1-317-87107-1, 119, Malcolm Yapp, 6 May 2017, and liberal minded like Midhat Pasha who is also often considered one of the founders of the Ottoman Parliament.BOOK, HanioÄlu, M. Åükrü,books.google.com/books?id=fU7azFR3AqcC&pg=PA30, The Young Turks in Opposition, 1995, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-535802-5, 6 May 2017, BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=B-iDgNPVuhAC&pg=PA260, The Syrian Land: Processes of Integration and Fragmentation : BilÄd Al-ShÄm from the 18th to the 20th Century, 1998, Franz Steiner, 978-3-515-07309-7, 260, 6 May 2017, BOOK, Zvi Yehuda Hershlag,books.google.com/books?id=awoVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA36, Introduction to the Modern Economic History of the Middle East, Brill Archive, 1980, 978-90-04-06061-6, 36â37, 9 June 2013, BOOK, Caroline Finkel,books.google.com/books?id=hslOx5bvOzkC&pg=PA6, Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923, 19 July 2012, John Murray, 978-1-84854-785-8, 6â7, 11 June 2013, Thanks to the emerging internal, financial and diplomatic crises of 1875â1876, Midhat Pasha introduced the constitution of 1876, ending the Tanzimat.BOOK, Selçuk AkÅin Somel,books.google.com/books?id=tBoyoNNKh78C&pg=PA188, The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, 978-0-8108-7579-1, 188, 9 June 2013, {{Gallery|title=|width=232|height=232|align=center | Cenab Åahabeddin was known for his liberal ideals and poetry influenced by French Symbolism.}}Reforms{{Taxation in the Ottoman Empire sidebar}}File:Mizanci murat.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Prominent statesman Mizancı Murat Bey was renowned for his work on reviving the concept of Ottomanism during the Second Constitutional EraSecond Constitutional EraFile:Sultanzade Sabahaddin.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|Prince Sabahaddin proclaimed the first liberal party of the Ottoman Empire during the Second Constitutional Era.]]The Tanzimât reforms began under Sultan Mahmud II. On November 3, 1839, Sultan Abdulmejid I issued a hatt-i sharif or imperial edict called the Edict of Gülhane or () . This was followed by several statutes enacting its policies.In the edict the Sultan stated that he wished “to bring the benefits of a good administration to the provinces of the Ottoman Empire through new institutions”. Among the reforms were:MAGAZINE, PadiÅahı, Ä°lklerin, July 2011, Sultan Abdülmecid,www.ntvtarih.com.tr/, NTV Tarih, tr, 46â55,www.ntvtarih.com.tr/," title="web.archive.org/web/20130212143841www.ntvtarih.com.tr/,">web.archive.org/web/20130212143841www.ntvtarih.com.tr/, 2013-02-12, BOOK, Strohm, Frederic, Istanbul im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Modernisierungsbestrebungen in der osmanischen Hauptstadt â lokale Faktoren und globale Einflüsse, Istanbul in the 19th century. Modernization efforts in the Ottoman capital: local factors and global influence, de, 2016, 34â,
Edict of of 1839File:Mustafa reshid pasha.jpg|thumb|left|Mustafa ReÅid Pasha, the principal architect of the Edict of (the Ottoman Imperial Edict of Reorganization, proclaimed on November 3, 1839)]]The , lit. Noble Decree or Imperial Rescript of Gülhane, was the first major reform in the Tanzimat reforms under the government of sultan Abdulmejid and a crucial event in the movement towards secularization. The decree, named after the rosehouse () on the grounds of the Topkapi Palace, abolished tax farming. It also created a bureaucratic system of taxation with salaried tax collectors. This reflects the centralizing effects of the Tanzimat reforms. Additionally, the Edict of imposed forced military conscription within the administrative districts based on their population size.ReactionsThe reaction to the edict was not entirely positive. Christians in the Balkans refused to support the reforms because they wanted an autonomy that became more difficult to achieve under centralized power. In fact, its adoption spurred some provinces to seek independence by rebelling. It took strong British backing in maintaining Ottoman territory to ensure that the reforms were instated.Edict of 1856 and religious freedomFile:Mehmed ali.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|Mehmed Emin Ãli Pasha, the principal architect of the Islâhat Fermânı.]]The Reform Edict of 1856 was intended to carry out the promises of the Tanzimat. The Edict is very specific about the status of non-Muslims, making it possible “to see it as the outcome of a period of religious restlessness that followed the Edict of 1839”. Officially, part of the Tanzimat’s goal was to make the state intolerant to forced conversion to Islam, also making the execution of apostates from Islam illegal. Despite the official position of the state in the midst of the Tanzimat reforms, this tolerance of non-Muslims seems to have been seriously curtailed, at least until the Reform Edict of 1856. The Ottoman Empire had tried many different ways to reach out to non-Muslims. First it tried to reach out to them by giving all non-Muslims an option to apply for Dhimmi status. Having Dhimmi status gave non-Muslims the ability to live in the Ottoman Empire and own property, but this ability was not without special taxes (jizya).For the “Ottoman ruling elite, ‘freedom of religion’ meant ‘freedom to defend their religion{{’“}}.JOURNAL, Deringil, Selim, July 2003, There Is No Compulsion in Religion’: On Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire: 1839â1856, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42, 3, 547â575, 10.1017/S0010417500002930, 146795365,EffectsFile:Greek lithograph celebrating the Ottoman Constitution.png|thumb|235px|The 1876 Constitution: Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the Grand Vizier, and the millets grant freedom to an idealized female figure representing Turkey, whose chains are being smashed. The flying angel displays a banner with the motto of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity in Turkish (Arabic script) and in Greek. The scene takes place in a generic Bosphorus scenery. Reproduced from a 1908 postcard (the printed caption of 1895 is inaccurate) celebrating the re-introduction of the constitution thanks to the Young Turk RevolutionYoung Turk RevolutionAlthough the Edict of Gülhane and the Tanzimat provided strong guidelines for society, they were not a constitution and did not replace the authority of the sultan.Still, the Tanzimat reforms had far-reaching effects overall. Those educated in the schools established during the Tanzimat period included major personalities of the nation states that would develop from the Ottoman Empire, such as Mustafa Kemal Pasha and other leaders and thinkers of the Republic of Turkey and many other personalities from the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa. The system was ultimately undone by negotiations with the Great Powers following the Crimean War. As part of the Charter of 1856, European powers demanded a much stronger sovereignty for ethnic communities within the empire, differing from the Ottomans, who envisioned equality meaning identical treatment under the law for all citizens. That served to strengthen the Christian middle class, increasing their economic and political power.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}The reforms peaked in 1876 with the implementation of an Ottoman constitution checking the autocratic powers of the Sultan. The details of this period are covered under the First Constitutional Era. Although the new Sultan Abdul Hamid II signed the first constitution, he quickly turned against it.Some scholars argue that from the Muslim population’s traditional Islamic view, the Tanzimat’s fundamental change regarding the non-Muslims, from a status of a subjugated population (dhimmi) to that of equal subjects, was in part responsible for the Hamidian massacres and subsequent Armenian genocide. In their view, these were inevitable backlashes from the Muslim community to the legal changes, as the Tanzimat’s values were imposed from above and did not reflect those of society.JOURNAL, Movsesian, Mark, 2010-05-05, Elusive Equality: The Armenian Genocide and the Failure of Ottoman Legal Reform, en, Rochester, NY, 1600745,Effects in different provincesIn Lebanon, the Tanzimat reforms were intended to return to the tradition of equality for all subjects before the law. However, the Sublime Porte assumed that the underlying hierarchical social order would remain unchanged. Instead, the upheavals of reform would allow for different understandings of the goals of the Tanzimat. The elites in Mount Lebanon, in fact, interpreted the Tanzimat far differently from one another, leading to ethno-religious uprisings among newly emancipated Maronites. As a result, “European and Ottoman officials engaged in a contest to win the loyalty of the local inhabitants â the French by claiming to protect the Maronites; the British, the Druze; and the Ottomans by proclaiming the sultan’s benevolence toward all his religiously equal subjects.“JOURNAL, Makdisi, Ussama, 2000, Corrupting the Sublime Sultanate: The Revolt of Tanyus Shahin in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42, 1, 180â208, 10.1017/S0010417500002644, 143901523, In Palestine, land reforms, especially the change in land ownership structure via the Ottoman Land Law of 1858, allowed Russian Jews to buy land, thus enabling them to immigrate there under the first Aliya. In order to boost its tax base, the Ottoman state required Arabs in Palestine, as elsewhere, to register their lands for the first time. As a rule the fellahin didn’t trust the ailing regime, fearing that registration would only lead to higher taxation and conscription. Prevailing illiteracy among the fellahin meant in the end that many local mukhtars were able to collectively register village lands under their own name. Thus, they were able to later claim ownership and to sell the local peasants’ lands out from under their feet to the new Jewish immigrants, as they themselves relocated permanently to Syria or Turkey.BOOK, Shafir, Gershon, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1882-1914, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Alternately, rich Christian or Muslim families, the class of the ‘Effendis’, were able to accumulate large amounts of land which they exploited by themselves or sold on.In Armenia, the Armenian National Constitution (Ottoman Turkish: “Nizâmnâmeâi Milletâi Ermeniyân“) of 1863 was approved by the Ottoman government. The “Code of Regulations” consisted of 150 articles drafted by the Armenian intelligentsia and defined the powers of the Armenian Patriarch under the Ottoman millet system and the newly formed “Armenian National Assembly”.BOOK, The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Hovannisian, Richard G., 198,Political consequencesDespite progressive intentions, the policy of reform in the form of Tanzimat ultimately failed. The historical circumstances of the reforms, the reasons for this failure and the consequences of the reforms are of interest for historical analysis and are considered by historians all over the world. Zeynep Ãelik wrote: “In summary, from 1838 to 1908 the Ottoman Empire staged its final but doomed struggle for survival.“{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}Gallery{{Gallery|title=|width=250|height=250|align=center | Meeting of the Parliament, 1877. | Meeting of the Parliament, 1908. | Building of the Ottoman Parliament. | The Imperial Ottoman Bank headquarters, 1896. | Naum Theatre in Constantinople. | Tobacco factory in Samsun, 1910. | Bomonti brewery of Constantinople. | Beyazıt Square, 1880s. | Marmara University, 1880s. | Turkish delegates to Budapest}}See also
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