The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy, and Discipline (Ottoman Empire & Its Heritage) - Hardcover

Somel, Selcuk Aksin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004119035 ISBN 13: 9789004119031

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2001

Synopsis

The aim of the Ottoman educational reforms was to raise a class of educated bureaucrats as a means of administrative centralization, and a design to inculcate authoritarian and religious values among the population for the legitimization of state authority.
This study, which deals with the modernization of Ottoman public education during the period of reform, is based on sources such as Ottoman archives, published documents, textbooks, and memoirs. It discusses the main factors that led to Ottoman educational reforms.
The topics in this volume include the expansion of provincial education, financial policies, curricular issues, the educational ideology of the Tanzimat (1839-1876) and the Hamidian periods (1878-1908), ethnic groups in the Balkans, Anatolia and Arabia, and the process of socialization. The book particularly addresses those readers interested in the educational, social and administrative history of the late Ottoman period.

About this title

About the Author:

Selēuk Akşin Somel, Ph.D. (1993) in Turkology, University of Bamberg, is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at Bilkent University, Ankara. He has published articles on Ottoman educational history and on peripheral populations of the Ottoman Empire.

Review:

'...a work whose scope and use of primary sources are unrivalled in the study of modern Middle Eastern education'
Barak A. Salmoni, Education Review2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004119035
• ISBN 13: 9789004119031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436