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The actualization of one man’s ideologies: Midhat Pasha’s influence on the late Ottoman Empire
(Bilkent University, 2020) Muhaymin, Abdul; Jawed, Aimun; Bukhari, Huzaifa Muhammad; Syed, Mustafa Waqar; Belhaj, Youssef
Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha was one of the leading statesmen in the Ottoman Empire in the mid 19th century, whose reforms and ideologies had left their permanent marks on the Ottoman Empire; marks which can even be seen today. This research paper will aim to investigate Midhat Pasha’s influence on the Ottoman Empire throughout his numerous governorships, vizierates, the constitution, relations with international powers, and even interactions with the sultans. Furthermore, we will consequentially prove Midhat Pasha was successful in giving his beliefs a solid form, which inevitably resulted in firm governance and reforms that had an unshaken foundation. Additionally, getting an opportunity to interview his direct descendant would help us get to know more about Midhat Pasha himself, and some of his other traits which may have been left unadhered to by history, but well-known by his progeny.
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Tanzimat reforms reconsidered : The Case study of Tuna province (1856-1868)
(2016-12) Murgul, Yalçın
After signing of the Treaty of Paris (1856), Westernization and other reforms were adopted by the Ottoman government as a strategy to protect the state in existence. The Christian Question in the Empire as well as the pressures of the Great Powers emerged to become the most important reasons to impel the Ottoman Government to carry out reforms. The Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire were the countries that attempted to find a way out of the political difficulties and challenges arising from the legacy of an ancient regime, emerging nationalist movements and imperialist aspirations of Western powers and Russia. Focusing on the period from 1856 to 1868, the aim of this study is to re-visit the reform question by devoting a special place to the Tuna (Danube) Province (Tuna Vilâyeti), which was governed by Midhat Pasha between the years 1864 and 1868. This is simply because during that time period, the Tuna Province was designed as a governmental project to spread the reforms across the country, in other words, it served as a model for other provinces. This thesis is divided into two parts: 1) The World Encircling the Ottoman Empire (1856-1870) and The Reform Question (1856-1865), and 2) The Vilâyet of Tuna (1864-1868).
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Tanzimat the Balkans : Midhat Pasha's governorship in the Danube Province (Tuna Vilayeti), 1864-1868
(2007) Çelik, Mehmet
This study aims at analyzing Midhat Pasha’s governorship in the Danube province between 1864 and 1868 within two dimensions: Midhat Pasha as an Ottoman governor symbolizing the Tanzimat ideology and modernization in the countryside; and the rise of the Bulgarian revolutionary movements supported by the Russian Pan-Slavist policies. For this purpose, focus is placed on Midhat Pasha’s reforms in this pilot region, which would be carried out as examples for the other provinces within the empire, and also his struggle against the national uprisings. The huge amount of relevant single documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives in Istanbul and the Ottoman archives in Sofia along with the provincial newspaper, (Tuna), the yearbooks of the province, and the memoirs of Pasha himself constitute the main source and bases of this thesis.