Volga Tatar Jadidism and its effects on the Ottoman protectionist economic thought

Abstract

This thesis deals with the influence of the Jadid movement of the Volga Tatars in the formation of the Ottoman protectionist economic thought. It analyzes the subjects of the economic and cultural history of the Volga Tatars, their intellectual approach to the economic issues shaped around the Jadid movement under the effects of the Russian modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its influence on the development of the Ottoman protectionist economic thought through a Jadidist Volga Tatar intellectual named Akyiğitzade Musa who migrated to the Ottoman Empire in the 1880s. The thesis is consisted of 3 chapters, and in the first chapter, the development of the Jadidist approach to the economic issues is analyzed with the factors which contributed to its development. In the second chapter, the modernization of the Ottoman economic thought is reviewed until the development of the Ottoman protectionism with the contribution of Akyiğitzade Musa who migrated to the Ottoman Empire when there was a heated debate between the supporters of free trade and protectionism. In the last chapter, the contribution of Akyiğitzade Musa to the Ottoman protectionist thought is examined in the lights of these two chapters.