HIST 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ottoman Empire, Bashir Shihab Ii, History Of The Jews In The Ottoman Empire
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Ottoman society in the arab lands in the nineteenth century. With european intervention into the ottoman empire relationships between. Muslim"s believed that because the ottoman empire was losing power, The muslim ruler ibrahim of egypt sought to modernize the administration and enforce tax policies. Muslim"s opposed him so he looked for support in christians. Gave christians and jews political and religious equality with muslims. Overturned the foundations of the structure on which intercommunal relations had been based on. Muslims began to resent the christians as european consult began to hire them to sell european goods. Muslim goods and local merchants were then undermined by european goods. The hatti sharif of gulhanc was issued with ideals for equal rights, reforms in education, the economy and military technology. Document was an appeal to britain to protect them from russia. Anti-christian riots in aleppo (1850), nablus (1856), and a large massacre of thousands in damascus (1860)
