Publication of revised PhD thesis

DISSENT AND HETERODOXY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: REFORMERS, BABIS AND BAHA'IS

Necati ALKAN

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Transliteration

Foreword

Introduction

1. Reforms in the Late Ottoman Empire

Westernising reforms and the role of the ulema at the turn of the 19th century

Sultan Abdülmecid

The Tanzimat Period

2. Early Babis in the Ottoman Empire

The Rule of Necib Pasha in Iraq and the Relationship with Iran

The Rise of the Babi Movement

Combined Sunni-Shi‘i Opposition: The Trial of Mulla ‘Ali Bastami

The Bab’s Epistle to Sultan Abdülmecid

Sultan Abdülmecid and Tahira

3. The Babis, Iran and the Ottoman Reform Elite

The Exile of Baha’u’llah in Baghdad and Iran’s Intervention

Forced Residence of Baha’u’llah in Istanbul

Baha’u’llah in Edirne: the Deterioration of the Babi-Ottoman Relations

Final Exile in ‘Akka: Baha’u’llah’s Letters to Âli Pasha and Fuad Pasha

4. The Baha’is and the ‘Fathers’ of Ottoman Constitutionalism

Young Ottomans and the Baha’is

Midhat Pasha and ‘Abdu’l-Baha

5. Iranian Reformers, Young Turks and the ‘Babis’ in 19th

Century Istanbul

Sayyid Jamalu’d-Din ‘al-Afghani’

Al-Afghani, the Babis and the Baha’is

The ‘Babi Leader’ al-Afghani and the Young Turks

Mirza Malkum Khan, the Babis and the Baha’is

The Reformist Baha’i Qajar Prince Shaykhu’r-Ra’is

6. ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the Ottomans, 1890s – 1910s

Ottoman Intellectuals on ‘Abdu’l-Baha

‘Abdu’l-Baha, Abdülhamid II and the Young Turks

‘Abdu’l-Baha and the Young Turks after 1908

7. From Empire to Republic: State and Religion in the Era of

Kemalist reform

The Young Turks and Kemalist Westernism: the Role of Abdullah Cevdet

Abdullah Cevdet, Islam and the Baha’i Religion

Atatürk’s Secularist Reforms and the Baha’i Response

Baha’is under the Scrutiny of the Kemalist State

Atatürk and the Baha’i Religion

Conclusions

Appendices

Bibliography

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