ABSTRACT
AFTER ITS BETRAYAL and downfall in 1807, the New Order was revived by the forces that had brought about its birth, only to suffer a mortal blow in 1809. Reformism then lay dormant until 1826 while Ottoman sovereignty itself lay in the balance. Never during these seventeen years were the reformers to manifest the attitudes of Selim’s time–these found expression, received their accolades, and met their test only in Mehmet Ali’s Egypt.
