Cevdet Pasha as Critic of Ottoman Society
(45th Meeting of the PIAC, Budapest 2002)
An influential statesman and prolific scholar, Cevdet Pasha (1823–1895) was a close observer of the society of his time and a strict judge of the political and scholarly elite he encountered in a career that spanned five decades. His most personal works, the Tezakir and the Ma‘ruzat, form a rich, yet little tapped source of information about Ottoman society of the Tanzimat era.