MESAS 200W Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Turkey, Ulama, Latin Alphabet

• School: Emory University
• Department: Middle Eastern & South Asian
• Course: MESAS 200W
• Professor: Dr. Margariti Roxani

Document Summary

Start with mahmud ii (1808-1839) - attempts to modernize in his time. End with mustafa kemal ataturk (father of the turks) (1881-1938) - founding leader of modern turkish republic. No arabic script in the painting, but they start using the latin alphabet in the formation of the new turkic state. Modern turkey an inheritor of ottoman state. Mehmed ali - slaves from africa, pointing specifically to egypt as a colonial power in africa and specifically overpowering the sudan. Ideas about national identity takes place among groups that seceded from the ottoman state such as the greeks and serbians. Also happens with populations that remain under ottoman rule which intensifies with the creation of modern states. Several things that explain the dynamics within the ottoman center. Greeks in prominent positions of ottoman empire. Greek merchants profiting from ottoman control of eastern mediterranean and from subsequent treaties and privileges given to russia. Naval battle of navarino (1827): french, british and russian forces.