Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid Ii

His tutors included some of the leading ulema and shaykhs of istanbul.

Turkish sultan abdul hamid ii. Abdülhamid ii born september 21 1842 constantinople now istanbul turkey died february 10 1918 constantinople ottoman sultan from 1876 to 1909 under whose autocratic rule the reform movement of tanzimat reorganization reached its climax and who adopted a policy of pan islamism in opposition to western intervention in ottoman affairs. Abdul hamid ii was born on 21 september 1842 in the topkapı palace he was the son of sultan abdulmejid i and tirimüjgan kadın originally named virjinia. In his era ottoman army fought wars against russian empire and the kingdom of greece. The turkish sultan abdul hamid ii 1842 1918 was a ruler of the ottoman empire.

That is sultan abdul hamid ii lost 1 5 million kilometers of land. He was well versed in the qur an the sunnah of the prophet and in the hanafi school of fiqh. Since history books state that during his 33 year long reign twice as much land as today s turkish territory which atatürk and the heroes of the war of independence protected were lost. He obtained the throne in 1876 when his brother murad v was ousted by a.

The area north of aleppo and al bab are the privately registered land of sultan abdulhamid ii. The massacres broke out in the summer of 1894 in the remote region of sasun in southern armenia where the government relied on the excuse of armenian resistance to kurdish encroachment into the last recesses of the mountains to order the sacking of the alpine hamlets. As a child he received an education worthy of a caliph and sultan. Of all intelegence in europe 90 is in abdul hamid 5 in myself and 5 in everyone else.

Sultan abdulhamid s reign was arguably the most difficult and tumultuous era in the history of the ottoman caliphate and he is credited with lengthening the ottoman empire s reign an extra 30 years. After the death of his mother he later became the adoptive son of his father s legal wife perestu kadın perestu was also the adoptive mother of abdul hamid s half sister cemile sultan whose mother düzdidil kadın had died in 1845. They were carried out during the reign of abdul hamid abdulhamit ii 1876 1909 the last sultan effectively to rule over the turkish state. A reactionary autocrat he delayed for a quarter century the liberal movement in the empire.

Abdul hamid ii 1842 1918 was the son of sultan abdul majid 1823 1861 and a circassian mother. Sultan abdulhamid ii ruled ottoman empire for almost thirty two years until he was deposed shortly after 1908. 21 1842 abdul hamid was the son of sultan abdul medjid and of tirimujgan a circassian.