Ahmed Jawdat Pasha was a 19th-century Ottoman historian, legist and statesman. Promoting Western-style reforms in the Ottoman Empire, he transformed Ottoman historiography. On the one hand, he founded modern Ottoman historiography by utilizing a new methodology and outlook, and on the other hand, he penned the theoretical precepts of his political thought in the process of historiography by pivoting historiography around the concept of state, and he simultaneously utilized the theoretical principles of government in Islam and the West in formulating the theoretical principles of his political thought. The way Jawdat Pasha simultaneously utilized Western and Islamic political thought in theoretical principles of political thought is the focus of the present study, which – through a descriptive and interpretive method and utilizing Jawdat’s works and historical sources of the time – attempts to answer the following question: What was the bond that Jawdat Pasha created between theoretical Islamic and Western precepts regarding the origin of state?
Pashazadeh G - A. Jawdat Pasha: Bonding Historiography and Political Thought to the Western and Islamic Principles. مطالعات تاریخ اسلام 2013; 5 (17) :27-46 URL: http://journal.pte.ac.ir/article-1-270-en.html