Tanzimatn.
/ˈtanzɪmat/ Historical.
collective. A series of reforming edicts issued by the Turkish government between 1839 and 1876, which aimed to rationalize governmental and military administration, and grant equal rights to all subjects of the Ottoman Empire; hence, the period of Ottoman history characterized by these reforms. Cf. hatti n.1
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Tanzimat1934
1850 C. MacFarlane Turkey & its Destiny II. xix. 144 The Minister..rather frequently exclaimed, ‘That is bad!’ ‘that is very unjust!’ ‘that is contrary to the Tanzimaut and our existing laws!’ ‘that must be remedied!’.
1909 E. C. Blech in Cambr. Mod. Hist. XI. ix. 275 It would be grossly incorrect to deny that the tanzimât, and the other similar enactments by which it has been followed, have been productive of great and lasting benefit to the subject-races of Turkey.
1934 Encycl. Islam IV. 658/1 The enrolment of non-Muslims in the army..remained a dead letter during the tanẓīmāt.
1935 Chambers's Encycl. X. 270/2 Abdul-Mejîd (1839–61), under British guidance, inaugurated constitutional reforms on paper (the Tanzimat), and endeavoured to counter the Russian claim to protect Ottoman Christians, by a policy of religious and racial equality.
1963 R. H. Davison Reform Ottoman Empire 1856–76 x. 404 The Tanzimat statesmen, it is sometimes said, attempted to import alien institutions and graft them onto Turkish society.
1980 C. V. Findley Bureaucratic Reform Ottoman Empire v. 158 The reforming statesmen of the Tanzimat were not slow to launch into the first stage of the cycle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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