Preface -- New introduction / by Feroz Ahmad -- Introduction -- The glimmerings 1718-1826. Silhouette of a renaissance ; Reaction against innovation ; The new order and its fall -- The break-through 1826-78. Foundations of a secular state ; Tanzimat: the economic and political impact of the West ; The secularism of the Tanzimat ; The constitutional movement ; Constitution of 1876 -- The reaction 1878-1908. Constitutional absolutism ; The reactions against the reaction -- Search for a fulcrum 1908-19. The Meşrutiyet ; Three proposed roads to reconstruction ; Reforming the institutions ; The secularism of the Meşrutiyet -- The struggle for establishment of a secular nation-state 1919-39. The birth of a nation under fire ; The Kemalist reforms ; The secularism of the Kemalist regime -- Conclusion -- Glossary
Summary
First published in 1999
Notes
Originally published: Montreal : McGill University Press, 1964
