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Term · Reform and the final era
Also known as: Islahat Fermanı
The edict proclaimed on 18 February 1856 that gave non-Muslim subjects rights equal to those of Muslims.
It was proclaimed at the Sublime Porte at the end of the Crimean War, before the Congress of Paris met. The edict promised to remove religious distinctions in taxation, military service, state office and admission to schools; the jizya was abolished by it.
Open the map in 1856Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, article “ISLAHAT FERMANI” (in Turkish); text condensed for the atlas.