ISLA 300 Lecture 4: ISLA300 – Ottoman Reforms
4 Aug 2019
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W2 ottoman reforms: ottomans" institutional problems. These reforms go back to the beginning of the 18th century. Last week, we already begun to discussed ottomans" internal issues that made reforms inevitable for the ottoman empire. By early 18th century, two ottoman institutions stopped functioning: (1) timur system. It was in a way the ottoman version of feudalism in which the ottomans were inspired from the byzantine and also other turkish muslim states. It was a compromised system of taxation and military decrement. He prepared himself a military, a small retenu of men. Timur was a way of collecting taxes, but not so much in cash, but in terms of military services; it was a way of collecting taxes as military service, to construct military manpower. This was the very first way in which the ottomans started to organize. But, the system is abandoned in early 18th c. because of a number of reasons:
