| Author(s) | Jamil Mousa AI-Najjar |
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor, History Department, College of Arts, Seventh April University, al-Zawiya, Libya |
| Title | Ottoman Educational Policy and Its Reflection on the State of Tripoli from the Reign of Governor Ahmed Izzat Pasha to the End of Ottoman Rule (1857-1911) |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Arts. Volume 14, No 1. (2002/1422) |
| Abstract | The Ottoman Empire began establishing modem schools on European models by the end of the eigh-teenth century. This process occurred simultaneously with the rise of the Reformation Movement (RM), which aimed at modernizing the Empire's military power and its civil systems and establishments, and was associated with it. This required an educational system that would satisfy the increasing requirements of the RM. However, the association of modem education with the RM resulted in an educational policy which was influenced by that movement, and that was often employed for achieving its aims. The present study attempts to reveal the features of that policy and its reflections on the state of Tripoli, which was affected by the weaknesses of the Ottoman educational policy more that any other state due to its large area, its distance from the Empire's center, and its adjacency to the European colonial domination. Accordingly, establishing schools in this state was characterized by slowness and lack of seriousness, and was often subject to the needs of the civil administration, or the purposes of maintaining the Empire's inter-ests and rule. Consequently, at the end of their rule, the Ottomans left nothing but a small number of elementary schools. |
