1.1 Ruhi Inqilab Translation

1 Ruhi al-Khalidi, The Ottoman Revolution and the Young Turks (Al-Inqilab al- `Uthmani wa Turkiya al-Fatat) Table of Contents 1. The difference between ‘Revolution’ and ‘Revolt’……………….p.4 2. Tyranny engenders revolution……………………………………………..p.5 3. Tyranny and Islam………………………………………………………………..p.6 4. Tyranny is Asiatic, not Islamic……………………………………………….p.7 5. The font of tyranny lies in the Royal Palace and the seat of the Caliphate…………………………………………………………………………………p.10 6. The Palace of the Ottoman Sultan, the Upbringing of the Heir to the Throne and the “Camarilla”……………………………………………………..p.12 7. The Beginnings of Reform in the Sublime State…………………….p.16 8. Sultan Mahmud II…………………………………………………………………p.16 9. The Grand Vizier Mustafa Rashîd Pasha………………………………..p.18 10. Sultan Abdulmejid…………………………………………………………… p.19 11. Amin `Ãli Pasha and Fu’ad Pasha…………………………………………p.21 12. The Young Turkey party………………………………………………………p.23 13. The Open Letter submitted to Sultan Abdulaziz by Fadil Pasha………………………………………………………………p.26 14. Nadim Pasha’s first Grand Vizierate……………………………………..p.28 15. Midhat Pasha’s first Grand Vizierate…………………………………….p.30 16. Nadim Pasha’s second Grand Vizierate…………………………………p.31 17. The insurrection of the Suftawat and the Grand Vizierate of Rushdi Pasha…………………………………………………………………………………………p.32 18. The deposition of Sultan Abdulaziz……………………………………….p.33