Going round the province for progress and prosperity: inspection tours and reports by late Ottoman governors

Kırmızı, Abdulhamit

doi:10.1080/13645145.2012.723867

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“…As for the nineteenth century evolution of the concept, Abdülhamit Kırmızı has stressed how the concept of nafia became intertwined with the notion of terakki, that is, progress (Kırmızı 2012). At a transnational level, and in the Ottoman thought, the concept of progress in the nineteenth century was understood in a twofold way: as a process that characterised the Mankind as a whole, but also as active action to be taken not to fall into decadence and disappear.…”

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Science and Technology in the Ottoman Language of Power (1790s-1910s).

Martykánová¹

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Science and Technology in the Ottoman Language of Power (1790s-1910s).

Martykánová¹

2020

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For a European History of Prefects and Governors: Administrative Action and State-Building in the Nineteenth Century

Karila-Cohen

2022

Prefects and Governors in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–1889

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2022

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In the nineteenth century, Qajar Iran was beset by both internal and external threats to its cohesion. In considering Qajar responses to this condition of threat, scholars have largely emphasized the rise of nationalism and a traumatic encounter with Europe. In this article, instead, I use the two Khuzestan travel narratives of royal engineer Najm al-Molk to draw out an alternative thread of reform discourse based on comparisons and connections with the Ottoman Empire. In his safarnamehs, Najm al-Molk joined the style and preoccupations of modern engineering to existing Persianate discourses on rule to elaborate the concept of abadi, a social, political, and material condition encompassing land, people, and state. His advocacy for making Khuzestan abadan was aimed at integrating the region more fully into the Qajar domains. In thinking about what constituted abadi and why it was missing in Khuzestan, the engineer’s major reference point was Ottoman Basra. Traveling around the Basra-Khuzestan borderlands helped Najm al-Molk frame the Ottoman Empire as an example for the Qajar future and a factor in producing the Qajar present. The article both analyzes and follows Najm al-Molk’s use of comparison in order to draw out a broader imperial comparison between late imperial rule in the Ottoman and Qajar lands. I argue that taking seriously Najm al-Molk’s view that the Qajars and Ottomans were comparable can help us use their peripheries to understand late Qajar history outside the national frame of “Iran.”

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Going round the province for progress and prosperity: inspection tours and reports by late Ottoman governors

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Science and Technology in the Ottoman Language of Power (1790s-1910s).

Science and Technology in the Ottoman Language of Power (1790s-1910s).

For a European History of Prefects and Governors: Administrative Action and State-Building in the Nineteenth Century

The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–1889

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