Person1800 – 1858
Mustafa Reşid Pasha
Also called: Mustafa Reshid Pasha
Ottoman diplomat and grand vizier who read out the Edict of Gülhane in 1839 and led the Tanzimat reforms
Also called: Mustafa Reshid Pasha
Ottoman diplomat and grand vizier who read out the Edict of Gülhane in 1839 and led the Tanzimat reforms
With the Edict of Gülhane the Ottoman Empire began Western-style modernizing reforms, guaranteeing the life and property of all subjects regardless of religion and promising equality before the law.
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance