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Mizancı Murat

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Mizancı Murat
Personal details
Born1853
Tbilisi, Russian Empire
Died1912
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
NationalityOttoman

Mizancı Murat (1853–1912) was an Ottoman monarchist, democrat, historian and politician, who was renowned for his work on reviving the concept of Ottomanism during the Second Constitutional Era.[1]

Biography

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Mizancı Murat was born in Tbilisi in 1853.[2] He received education in Russia.[2] Following his graduation he worked as a lecturer at Istanbul University.[2] He was a member of the Young Turks and had a pan-Islamist political stance.[3] In 1886 he launched a newspaper entitled Mizan.[3] Due to his alleged role in the coup against the Committee of Union and Progress in 1909, Mizancı Murat was sent to exile.[2] He returned to Istanbul later, but retired from politics, and he died in 1912.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Mizancı Murat - Beyaz Tarih".
  2. ^ a b c d e Erik Jan Zürcher (1984). The Unionist Factor: The Rôle [sic] of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 15. ISBN 978-90-04-07262-6.
  3. ^ a b Ozan Arslan; Çınar Özen (2005). "The Rebirth of the Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress in Macedonia Through the Italian Freemasonry". Oriente Moderno. 85 (1): 96. doi:10.1163/22138617-08501005.
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