Empire and Education Under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks (Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks)
Once hailed as 'the eternal state', the Ottoman Empire was in decline by the end of the nineteenth century, finally collapsing under the pressures of World War I. This book tells the history of education in the Ottoman Middle East to evaluate policies in the context of local responses and resistance.