The Ottoman Empire and Turkey facing the West
Inaugural Lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 21 December 2017
During the long nineteenth century, faced with an increasingly powerful and arrogant West, the Ottoman Empire modernised itself with the objective of dealing with an increasingly precarious situation. The history of this modernity, strongly marked by Westernisation, must be freed from many of the political and ideological influences that have burdened it so far, including Euro-centric orientalism, Kemalist nationalism, Islamising Ottomanism. The study of a wide variety of sources – most of which...
Note de l’éditeur
Published with the support of the Collège de France Foundation: https://www.fondation-cdf.fr.
Éditeur : Collège de France
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 6 juin 2025
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7226-0856-6
DOI : 10.4000/142kj
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
Année d’édition : 2025
Edhem Eldem
Liz Libbrecht (trad.)
The Ottoman Empire and Turkey facing the WestInaugural Lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 21 December 2017
During the long nineteenth century, faced with an increasingly powerful and arrogant West, the Ottoman Empire modernised itself with the objective of dealing with an increasingly precarious situation. The history of this modernity, strongly marked by Westernisation, must be freed from many of the political and ideological influences that have burdened it so far, including Euro-centric orientalism, Kemalist nationalism, Islamising Ottomanism. The study of a wide variety of sources – most of which are still unexploited – will inform critical reflection on this highly important and complex period.
Historian Edhem Eldem has taught at the universities of Boğaziçi, Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, EHESS, EPHE and ENS. Holder of the International Chair in Turkish and Ottoman History at the Collège de France, he is the author of numerous works on trade in the Levant, funeral epigraphy, the Ottoman Bank, the dynamics of Westernisation, Istanbul at the turn of the twentieth century, orientalism, the photography, history of archaeology, and collections in the Ottoman Empire.
Liz Libbrecht (trad.)
Fondation du Collège de France
Référence du projet : 223.FCDF/CDF.23

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