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	Tanzimat - Encyclopedia.com
		Tanzimat, [Turk.,=reorganization], the name referring to a period of modernizing reforms instituted under the Ottoman Empire from 1839 to 1876.
		Tanzimat ended (1876) under Abd al-Hamid II 's reign, when the ideas for a Turkish constitution and parliament promoted by the vizier Midhat Pasha were rejected by the sultan.
		Tanzimat donemi Turk romaninda kadin uzerine bir degerlendirme.(women in Turkish novels in the Tanzimat Period; text mainly in Turkish)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tanzimat.html (1048 words)

	The paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity.
		The ultimate aim of the Tanzimat reformers was the achievement of sivilizasyon as seen through French eyes.(12) This aim later became the slogan of the Republican reforms in the 1920s that strove to elevate Turkey to the level of muasir medeniyet (contemporary civilization).
		With the initiation of Tanzimat reforms, the dilemma of the achievement of a balance between the materiality of the West and the spirituality of the East became quite clear.
		Tanzimat writers were critical of the adoption of certain Western codes of conduct and life styles on the part of the Ottoman elites.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/ayse.htm (6829 words)

	Tanzimat - MSN Encarta
		Tanzimat (Turkish for “reorganization”), reform period of the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and the proclamation of the Ottoman constitution in 1876.
		Mahmud converted semi-independent government bureaus into tightly controlled ministries modeled on European systems of government, destroyed the Janissaries (an elite military corps) as a prelude to military reform, and embarked on reforms in education and finance.
		It brought an end to the Tanzimat period, however, which would be followed by the despotic reign of Abd al-Hamid II, the suppression and massacre of ethnic minorities, and the successful nationalist revolution of the Young Turks.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761588419/Tanzimat.html (297 words)

	II.2. The Tanzimat Reforms (1839-1876)
		The major educational breakthrough of the Tanzimat came with the 1869 "Ordinance of General Education", (Maarif-i Umumiye Nizamnamesi) conceived and written by Sadullah Pasha in response to a diplomatic French note requesting the establishment of a modern lycee.
		Leading statesmen of the Tanzimat, Sultan Abdülmecit, Reshit Pasha, Ali Pasha, Fuat Pasha, the “Historian of historians” Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ahmet Kemal Pasha, Mithat Pasha, Ahmet Vefik and Saffet Pasha were all interested in the educational reforms.
		Tanzimat was further handicapped from the fact, that although there was a Ministry of General Education, madrasa, military schools, private or foreign school and vocational and professional (higher) schools were all supervised by different State Ministries of equal rank-without an effective cooperation or coordination between them.
	www.yok.gov.tr /webeng/histedu/part2_2.html (1706 words)

	Tanzimat
		Tanzimat is Turkish for "reorganization", and was a program that based itself on the changes started by sultan Mahmud 2.
		One characteristic of the Tanzimat that made it hard to accept for many, was that it had been formed upon European ideas and ideals.
		The reforms of the Tanzimat was administered under the Grand Vizier.
	i-cias.com /e.o/tanzimat.htm (478 words)

	Tanzimat - Definition, explanation
		The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that lasted from 1839 to 1876.
		The ambitious project was launched to try and combat the slow decline of the empire that had seen its borders shrink and a growing weakness when compared to the European powers.
		Both the Young Turks and the later leaders of Turkey were educated in the schools established during the Tanzimat, as were many of the early Arab Nationalists.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/ta/tanzimat.php (241 words)

	Tutorial 4A
		It must be noted, however that Tanzimat was a much the result of upheavals in the eighteenth century as it was the cause of changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		Tanzimat was the culmination of a series of reforms along Western lines that started during the reign of Ahmed III (1703-30).
		Tanzimat was a "palace revolution" that strengthened the position of the bureaucrats were in power.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /ottoman/module4/tutorial4a.htm (3542 words)

	Tanzimat
		Tanzimat emerged from the mind of prominent reformers who were European educated bureaucrats.
		On the 3rd November, 1839, Sultan Abdul Mejid issued an organic statute for the general government of the Empire named the Hatt-i Sharif, of Gulhane (the imperial place where it was first proclaimed), and sometimes called the Tanzimat Fermani.
		The change in land ownership structure, which was part of the Tanzimat, allowed Russian Jews to buy land in Palestine, thus enabling them to immigrate there, beginning the first Aliya and signaling the beginning of Zionism.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DTanzimat%26type%3Den (477 words)

	Tanzimat Summary
		Tanzimat is a Turkish word meaning "regulation" or "reorganization" that refers to a period of reforms in the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876 under sultans Abdulmejid and Abdulaziz.
		During the Tanzimat Period, three prime ministers—Mustafa Reshid, Ali Pasha, and Fuad Pasha—; undertook substantial reforms in the political, social, and economic fields, mostly modeled on the French experience.
		The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that lasted from 1839 to 1876.
	www.bookrags.com /Tanzimat (1021 words)

	Tanzimat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that lasted from 1839 to 1876.
		The ambitious project was launched to try and combat the slow decline of the empire that had seen its borders shrink and a growing weakness when compared to the European powers.
		Both the Young Turks and the later leaders of Turkey were educated in the schools established during the Tanzimat, as were many of the early Arab Nationalists.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Tanzimat.html (309 words)

	Tanzimat donemi Turk romaninda kadin uzerine bir degerlendirme. \| Kadin/Woman 2000 (December , 2002)
		Tanzimat fermani ile birlikte yeni ve farkli bir medeniyet dairesine giren Osmanli Devleti siyasi, sosyal, fikri ve idari yapusinda onemli degisiklikler yapmistir.
		Tanzimat donemi romanlarimizda yazarlarin, kahramanlarin yani sira onlarin aileleri hakkinda da tanitici bilgiler vermelerinin sebebi, olumlu veya olumsuz tiplerin ortaya cikmasinda anne ve babanin verdigi egitimin onemine isaret etmek icindir.
		Tanzimat donemi romanlanmizdaki kahramanlari, baba otoritesi ve anne egitimi acisindan degerlendirdigimiz zaman, idealize edilmis tiplerin babadan veya anneden iyi bir egitim aldiklarini baba olmus olsa bile, bu eksikligin anne tarafindan basarili bir sekilde dolduruldugunu gormekteyiz.
	www.accessmylibrary.com /coms2/summary_0286-9936397_ITM (1543 words)

	Green Left - PALESTINE: Six dead, hundreds wounded as negotiations continue
		The Tanzimat are heavily armed and all attempts by the PA to disarm them have failed.
		When the Tanzimat pointed their guns at Rajoub, he was forced to let them leave armed and untouched.
		The Tanzimat's growing discontent is only one symptom of the breakdown in the Palestinian national movement which has followed the extension of the PA's rule to most Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2000/406/23664 (677 words)

	tanzimat
		Tanzimat Reconstructieprogramma voor het Ottomaanse Rijk tussen 1839 en 1876.
		Hayrullah Efendi, one of the prominent officials of the Reformation Period (Tanzimat 1839) was born...
		Tanzimat Hareketinin YarattÄ±ÄÄ± Tepkiler · Ä°mparatorlukta Tanzimat Hareketine DÃ¼ÅmanlÄ±k...In the Tanzimat Declaration officially known as the "Imperial Gulhane Decree of 1839", read by the Grand Vizier Mustafa Reshid Pasha in the name of Sultan,...
	www.freewebtown.com /bemelbor/html/tanzimat (839 words)

	Graduate Programs in Turkish Language and Literature
		Study of the poetry of the Tanzimat period in which Turkish poems in the western tradition emerged, with particular emphasis on Ziya Pasa, Namik Kemal and Abdulhak Hamit's poetry and the novelties they brought to Turkish literature.
		Study of the newspaper articles of the Tanzimat poets and writers who shaped almost the whole intellectual opinion, with emphasis on the works like Ziya Pasa's Zafer-name which criticizes the 'sadrazam' and Namik Kemal's Renan Mudafaa-namesi which defends Islam.
		Study of the novels translated from western languages into Turkish from the period of the Tanzimat to the establishment of the Republic and playing an important role in the evolution of the Turkish novel.
	www.boun.edu.tr /graduate/social_sciences_and_humanities/turkish_language_literature.html (2816 words)

	Devlet Bahceli and the third Tanzimat period - Turkish Daily News Dec 02, 2000
		Then, when the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Senkal Atasagun started the Kurdish language debate with the permission of the prime minister, he stated that some wanted to take Turkey back to the Tanzimat period and added that like during that period there were some people who wanted mandatory rule by external powers.
		The Tanzimat period, though, was also the beginning of the Westernization/modernization of the Ottoman Empire which is still going on.
		It could be described as the "third Tanzimat period" in Turkish-European relations and all those discussions could be considered in those terms.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=20814 (1056 words)

	sectarianism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is this cut between the old and the new, or the pre-reforms and the Tanzimat, that structures not only the major thesis of the book itself, but many of the narratives that the author uses in support of his thesis.
		The Tanzimat are often referred to in modern Ottoman historiography as "centralizing" attempts from the imperial bureaucracy.
		Thus, the iltizam system had such a scope: it was considered more efficient and rational than its predecessor, the timar; and so were the Tanzimat, which unsuccessfully attempted to abolish the iltizam, and only managed to revamp the judiciary by drastically limiting the role of the shari'a courts.
	www.luc.edu /depts/history/ghazzal/sectarianism.html (2353 words)

	T.C. Kultur Bakanligi / Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey
		It is not a mistake to say that the foundations of contemporary lstanbul were formed in the era of Tanzimat (Re- formation) which took place in the 19 th century.
		In this respect, it must be stated that Istanbul entered the 20 th century on the foundations laid by the Tanzimat.
		The efforts of the Tanzimat period in order to reshape lstanbul, among all the preceeding eras, can mostly be compared to that of Constantin.
	www.discoverturkey.com /english/yeni/istanbul/contemporary.html (945 words)

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		There is no doubt that the Tanzimat Era (1839-1876) is very crucial for the modernization of Ottoman Empire, since it bores administrative, financial, social and legal reforms that affected both the center and the periphery of the empire.
		The reform attempts were not only applied in the central lands of the empire, but they were also tried to be implemented in the provinces as well.
		It was only with the second wave of Tanzimat in 1844-1845 that outer provinces such as Erzurum, Diyarbakır, Malatya, Bosnia and Baghdad were put under reform program.
	www.ktu.edu.tr /fakulte/fenedb/trhsmp/ozetler/EbubekirCeylan.htm (236 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tanzimat (Turkish And Ottoman History) - Encyclopedia
		In 1839, under the rule of Sultan Abd al-Majid, the edict entitled Hatti-i Sharif of Gulhane laid out the fundamental principles of Tanzimat reform.
		Foremost among the laws was the security of honor, life, and property for all Ottoman subjects, regardless of race or religion.
		Tanzimat ended (1876) under Abd al-Hamid II's reign, when the ideas for a Turkish constitution and parliament promoted by the vizier Midhat Pasha were rejected by the sultan.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tanzimat.html (226 words)

	AKADEMİK ARAŞTIRMALAR DERGİSİ Makaleleri
		They all knew that the Tanzimat was for their good, but at the same time they would not submit to the ordinances of the local councils, which forced them to pay for the rich.
		In this sense, it was not the application of the Tanzimat, but rather the application of force and injustice under the cover of the new Tanzimat measures that was the main reason behind such incidents as occurred in some places directly after the promulgation of this reform.
		For the Muslim population, the Tanzimat reforms were the first steps in establishing a more centralised state and of increasing the power of the Sultan’s authority, which might end the present abusive system and deserved their support.
	www.academical.org /dergi/MAKALE/9_10sayi/s9ozdemir1.htm (4411 words)

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		Born in Istanbul in 1815, he was among the foremost planners and implementers of the Tanzimat or reorganization of the Ottoman administration in the nineteenth century so as to bring it closer to modern Western standards.
		One of the hallmarks of his generation of Tanzimat reformers was their creation of a powerful corporate bureaucracy, a sort of enlightened dictatorship, that aimed at forcibly reshaping the rest of society on a more Western model.
		I would argue that, ironically, Bahá'u'lláh was moving away from a theocratic model toward one that acknowledged the autonomy of the civil state, and that there was a convergence between his thought and the Tanzimat that, tragically, the Ottoman state was unable to grasp because of Babism's previous reputation as a vehicle for radical theocracy.
	bahai-library.com /?file=cole_lawh_fuad_introduction (4265 words)

	MuslimHeritage.com - Topics
		The Imperial Tanzimat Rescript (Tanzimat Fermani) announced on 3rd November 1839 provided state protection for basic rights and freedoms such as the right to life, property and honour, the right to just taxation, regulation of military service, fair trial and the right not to have one's property confiscated.
		The purpose of the Tanzimat was not just to renovate the relationship between religion and the state, but also between property and the public and to ensure that the state was guided not by the principle of the public serving the state, but rather of the state serving the people.
		Following the proclamation of the Tanzimat, programs of educational reform made the reorganization of secondary education a priority and the educational system was restructured.
	muslimheritage.com /topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=412 (585 words)

	History of the Ottomans
		The declaration of the "Tanzimat" Reform movement in 1839 is considered a major link in the chain of modernization events which had continued unabated since the beginning of the 17th century.
		The Tanzimat Decree is considered to be a kind of constitution which gave Turkey the means to enter road to contemporary civilization.
		The principles inherent in the Tanzimat Reform Decree thereby laid the basis for the constitutional regime of modern Turkey and the realization of secularism.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/history_turkey/ottomans.htm (1016 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement \| The not so sick man of Europe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Not only were the Tanzimat a genuine, organic expression of the ruling elite's resolve to reform and modernise its apparatus, they were also at the heart of the Sublime Porte's vision for saving and restoring the Empire's glory.
		Their investments centred on the harbour, which was expanded and modernised to accommodate steamships, its storage facilities improved and quarantine instituted in it.
		In a line that runs parallel to the development of the city, and the upheavals brought forth by the Tanzimat, Kassir traces the formation of an urban nobility whose dominion over the local economic and political spheres would eventually result in the consolidation of a ruling class capable of wrestling independence from the French Mandate.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/704/bo1.htm (1896 words)

	Amir Taheri on Turkey & Malaysia on National Review Online
		Ozal was the continuator of the reform movement that began with the Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.
		The Tanzimat led to the constitutional movement that introduced such Western concepts as citizenship, national sovereignty, and secular law, into the Muslim political discourse.
		The men who had inspired the Tanzimat and the constitutional movement, in both the Ottoman Empire and Iran, saw them as instruments for creating "powerful states".
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-taheri051203.asp (1236 words)

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