2. The Tanzimat reforms
During this period (1839-1876) under the reigns of the sultans Abdülmecid I and Abdülaziz a wide-ranging series of educational, political, legal and economic reforms were carried out in an attempt at modernization to stop the decline of Ottoman power. Mustafa Reşid Pasha, the principal architect of the Edict of Gülhane 1. What were the goals and impacts of the Tanzimat reforms? Tanzimat contained the germs of...