Ottoman Empire: From Reform to Collapse (Summer 2024)

Ottoman Empire: From Reform to Collapse (Summer 2024)This final instalment of the Ottoman Empire series shall examine how the Ottoman Empire went through a series of reforms to save the fortunes of the Empire but eventually collapsed after WWI. This reform period is famously known as the Tanzimat period. After the Tanzimat period, we see the arrival of the pious sultan Abdulhamid II. Abdulhamids reign was the longest in two centuries, and he was in power for 33 years. He emphasised the idea of the

the rise of Selim I and his decisive defeat of the Mamluks

jihad and related concepts in Islamic theology and jurisprudence

• The Umayyad and ‘Abbāsid Dynastic Bureaucracies and Feudal economies

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ideological

Political Cycles as Cosmic Law: Introducing the Khaldūnian frame

and what it has done to us

and economic-political fragmentation of the Umayyad and ‘Abbasid caliphates

Sultan Abdulhamid II came to power in somewhat controversial circumstances and was removed from power for an even more controversial reason – via revolution

The course challenges the reduction of Ittihad-i Islam to "Pan-Islamism

What space is there for thinking about the ummah in current theories and approaches

From Reform to Collapse