History of the Modern Middle East / Module 4
Reform and the Ottoman Empire & Egypt (I)
Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt is taught as a struggle over how to respond to crisis. The lesson follows rulers, officials, religious leaders, and intellectuals who argued for change.
Learning objectives
- Compare reformist responses with attempts to return to earlier political forms.
- Identify the social and political actors who supported reform.
Transcript excerpt
Excerpt from the lesson transcript
Many of them saw that a return to the good old days is just not going to happen. It would not be effective. And that was not the solution. And they strongly supported the other faction or the other group, which was made up of intellectuals, religious leaders, government officials, but ultimately the major rulers of these states, the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, end up in that camp of what you might call reformers.