Young Ottomans

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The Young Ottomans were a 19th-century Ottoman intellectual and political reformist movement that sought to reconcile Islamic principles with constitutionalism and modern liberal ideas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intellectual movement
political movement
activity literary criticism
political journalism
political opposition
alsoActiveIn Geneva NERFINISHED
London NERFINISHED
Paris NERFINISHED
basedIn Istanbul NERFINISHED
country Ottoman Empire
dissolutionTime late 1870s
followedBy Young Turk movement NERFINISHED
goal establishment of a representative parliament
introduction of a constitution in the Ottoman Empire
limitation of absolute power of the sultan
reconciliation of Islamic principles with modern political ideas
historicalContext late Tanzimat era
ideology Islamic modernism NERFINISHED
Ottomanism NERFINISHED
constitutionalism
liberalism
influenced Young Turks NERFINISHED
late Ottoman constitutional reforms
influencedBy European liberalism NERFINISHED
French constitutional thought
Islamic political thought
language Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED
notableMember Ali Suavi NERFINISHED
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha NERFINISHED
Mehmed Fuad Pasha NERFINISHED
Namık Kemal NERFINISHED
Ziya Pasha NERFINISHED
İbrahim Şinasi NERFINISHED
opposedReformProgram Tanzimat centralizing policies
opposedTo autocratic rule of the sultan
precededBy Tanzimat reformers NERFINISHED
religiousOrientation Islam NERFINISHED
significantEvent First Constitutional Era NERFINISHED
startTime 1865
supportedConcept consultative government (şura)
popular sovereignty
rule of law
separation of powers
timePeriod 19th century
usedMedium newspapers
pamphlets
viewedIslamAs compatible with constitutional government

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Şerif Mardin researchInterest Young Ottomans