History of the Modern Middle East / Module 9
The Ottoman Constitutional Revolution
The Ottoman constitutional revolution is tied to military intervention in politics. The lesson places constitutional government within a wider twentieth-century regional aspiration.
Learning objectives
- Explain how military intervention shaped constitutional politics.
- Recognize constitutional government as a regional aspiration in the twentieth century.
Transcript excerpt
Excerpt from the lesson transcript
It comes about because of the intervention of the military in politics. So one of the features of the 20th century in the Middle East is the striving on the part of various peoples in the Middle East, Egyptians in their own way, Iranians in their own way, people in the successor states to the Ottoman Empire in their own way, a striving for constitutional government.