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E uropean Challenges to the Muslim World. By: Phil Bott. The Islamic faith extends from Africa to South-East Asia. There are three main rulers of the Muslim world: Mughals, Ottomans, and the Safavids.
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European Challenges to the Muslim World By: Phil Bott
The Islamic faith extends from Africa to South-East Asia. • There are three main rulers of the Muslim world: Mughals, Ottomans, and the Safavids. • Central government losing power over landowning nobles, military elites, and urban craft guilds. • Reforms started all across the Muslim world in the late 1700s-1800s. • Islamic reforms also began in Africa and UsmandanFodio led this reform. • Muslim empires demanded special rights for their people. Ferment in the Muslim World
The Ottoman empire spread across the Middle East, North East, and parts of Eastern Europe. • As Nationalistic ideas through Western Europe, revolts started within the Ottoman Empire. • Britain, France, Russia each wanted a piece of the crumbling Ottoman empire. • People in the Ottoman empire threatened to break away. Challenges to the Ottoman Empire
The reforms brought better health care and revitalized farming. • Reforms caused the population explosion. • In the 1890s a group of liberals created a movement called the Young Turks. • This movement ended up causing a world war in the Ottoman empire • In Turkey there was a genocide started against the Armenians because of their Nationalism. Efforts at Reforms
Muhammad Ali was a soldier that made many good changes to Egypt. • He was sometimes called “the father of modern Egypt”. • He improved tax collection, reorganized the landholding system, and backed large irrigation projects that increased farming output. • The Suez canal was built by a French entrepreneur named Ferdinand de Lesseps. Egypt Seeks to Modernize
Reform could not save Iran from Western imperialism. • Russia and Britain wanted land around the area. Russia wanted to expand into Central Asia and Britain wanted to protect its interests with India. • Some Iranians, mostly the middle class wanted to adopt western ways. Others, mostly Muslim religious leaders, condemned the government and western ways. Iran and the Western Powers