The Young Ottomans

Turkish Critics of the Eastern Question in the Late Nineteenth Century

Bibliographic Data

ID23205682
AuthorsNazan Çiçek (0000-0001-8811-6005, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Young Ottomans (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755692897
OpenAlexW4239441364
ISBN9780755692897
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The scope of the Western world's Eastern Question in the nineteenth century loomed large, encompassing issues from the threat posed by the 'Russian bear' to the interests of other Great Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean, to the conditions, or rather 'oppression' of non-Muslims, especially Christians, under the Ottoman 'yoke'. But the most important question of all, one that summarized the Eastern Question, was published in an anonymous pamphlet from 1850, which asked, 'what to do with the Turk?'. He was the 'sick man of Europe' since his heydays came to an end in the late eighteenth century, and his possible untimely death spelled a nightmare for the crowned heads of Europe. In this book Nazan Çiçek narrates and analyses some salient features of the Eastern Question, or the Ottoman Empire's 'Western Question', through the lenses of the Young Ottomans, the newly-rising semi-autonomous Ottoman Muslim Turkish intelligentsia. The Young Ottomans, although

Ancient history · Genealogy · Nightmare · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science) · Classics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Psychology

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