The Politicization of Islam : Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State

Distinguished Professor of History Department of History Kemal H Karpat
Oxford University Press, USA
9780195136180
0-19-513618-7

Combining international and domestic perspectives, this book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the.

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increase of domestic and foreign trade as key factors in the rise of a Muslim middle class, which, increasingly aware of its economic interests and communal roots, then attempted to reshape the government to reflect its ideals.